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From: oleary@sura.net (dave o'leary)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: RIP vs IGRP
Message-ID: <1991May9.222736.12884@sura.net>
Date: 9 May 91 22:27:36 GMT
References: <34858@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <133@gordius.gordian.com>
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In article <133@gordius.gordian.com> johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki) writes:
>In article <34858@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, tli@cisco.com (Tony Li) writes:
>|> 
[stuff that isn't really relevant to this questions and answer]
>
>Does cisco's implementation of rip allow for multiple subnet masks per network?
>The rfc on rip (1058) doesn't mention this, but subseqent rfc's imply that
>rip could handle multiple subnet masks.
>
>		-John Kalucki
>		jonhk@gordian.com

RIP doesn't know anything about subnet masks.  This is one of its 
fundamental limitations.  Developing an implementation that knew 
about subnet masks would make it non-interoperable - pretty nuch 
the most useful feature of RIP...

dave o'leary, SURAnet NOC Mgr.
(301)982-3214  oleary@sura.net