Re: rip protocol

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 06/17/03 

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:35:08 GMT

In article <2ae4709b.0306171219.64426ee9@posting.google.com>,
RRG <rigoberto@sunguru.com> wrote:
>hi:
>I have a question about rip.
>Is rip a 5 layer or a 3 layer protocol?

It's an application protocol, so it's layer 7. It's an application
protocol used to support the needs of the network layer, layer 3.

P.S. Why is this question in a Solaris newsgroup? Isn't
comp.protocols.tcp-ip available on your news server? 

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