Re: RIP Justification

This is why they need a 'like' button on nanog!! :)

I once had cause to write a RIP broadcast daemon while on-site with a client; they had some specific brokenness with a Novell server and some other gear that was "fixed" by a UNIX box, a C compiler, and maybe 20 or 30 minutes of programming (mostly to remember the grimy specifics of UDP broadcast programming).  I do not recall the specific routing issue, but being able to just inject a periodic "spoofed" packet was sufficient to repair them.