Comparison (cont’d)
Speed of convergence
- “the winner is OSPF!”
- RIP: counting to infinity; updates must be processed, then sent out.
- OSPF: updates are propagated fast
- in a test scenario (Hubert Pun, CNL, 2001)
- with default settings for RIP timers
- RIP convergence time: 105.6 seconds
- OSPF convergence time: 14 seconds.