Hi, I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their networks, but since the IETF RIP mailing list is dead, and also because its more of an operational question, the Nanog list felt most appropriate to me for the following post. Why would you, as an operator, recieve RIPv2 Request messages? The only reason that comes to my mind is when a remote RIPv2 router has just come up. That time its going to multicast this message on all its interfaces configured to run RIP. This is the *only* reason that comes to my mind. However, there is text in the RFC 2453 that states that RIP can use this message to request specific networks also. It also states that such a request can only be made by a diagonistic software and cannot be used for routing. My doubt is, how can a diagnostic software, use the services of RIP for doing that? I assume (please correct me if i am wrong) that the RIP requests are only then, used for requesting the entire routing tables, and nothing else. The 'diagnostics' story sounds too far fetched to me! Thanks, Abhishek V. P.S. I tried googling but nothing came up. -- Class of 2004 Institue Of Technology, BHU Varanasi - India