What is RGP?

RZetlin

I'm going through the Exam Cram 2 praticial questions when I stumbled onto this puzzling one:

What is the following is connection-oriented?

1) HTTP
2) TCP
3) RGP
4) Circuit switching

The test results have HTTP and RGP as the correct answers. I'm surprised that TCP is not one of the corrent answers. In more screwy the explaination has HTTP stated as a connectionless protocol.

What is RGP anyway?
Is HTTP connectionless or connection based?

johnnynodough

TCP is connection oriented and the only correct answer. Layer 4.

Http is a layer 7 prot, it could care less about connections. It relies on TCP and UDP for data transfer

RGP is an exterior routing protocol.

Circuit switching, is well, circuit switching. Its a layer 2/3 attribute.


I would look for a different test.

RZetlin

johnnynodough wrote:

TCP is connection oriented and the only correct answer. Layer 4.

Http is a layer 7 prot, it could care less about connections. It relies on TCP and UDP for data transfer

RGP is an exterior routing protocol.

Circuit switching, is well, circuit switching. Its a layer 2/3 attribute.


I would look for a different test.

Is RGP connection based?

I'm starting to realize how sucky the Exam Cram 2 questions are.

The marking system is too strict.

If I do 85 questions, the passing rate is 86%.
Where the passing rate of the actual Network+ exam is 61.5%

darkuser

what the heck is rgp ?
http is connectionless ?
it uses tcp for transport

and tcp is connection-oriented

bgp also uses tcp as a transport and thus is a connection-oriented
routing protocol

check the errata for this book on the exam cram website.
these things a hastiliy published

wildfire

what the heck is rgp ?

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:_pzyap99N04J:diuf.unifr.ch/courses02-03/projet2/download/s6/rgp-spec.pdf+rgp+tcp&hl=en

All I could find about RGP and I doubt that what they meant unless Risk is up there with the best of the protocols

RZetlin

darkuser wrote:

what the heck is rgp ?

check the errata for this book on the exam cram website.
these things a hastiliy published

I just checked the website. They explained the material on the CD is out of date and I just need to press the update button to get the new material, but I did that already and I still get debatable material.

There's only one mistake listed in the Errata. There has to be more?!

Blah, I'm never going to buy a Exam Cram 2 pratice book again!

johnnynodough

Here is what I found on RGP.

Address Family Configuration Mode

Prompt: (config-router-af)

To enter address family configuration mode from router configuration mode, use the address-family command. Within this mode, you can configure address-family specific parameters for routing protocols, such as BGP, RGP , and static routing, that can accommodate multiple Layer 3 address families. The address family configuration mode commands include the neighbor-activate command and the neighbor as-override command. To exit address family configuration mode, use the exit-address-family command.

For details, refer to the "Configuring Multiprotocol Label Switching " chapter of the Release 12.2 Cisco IOS Switching Services Configuration Guide.

johnnynodough

Who knows, I cant find an RFC for it, there is some on IETF reffering to it as redemption grace period http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3915.html