In the past there have been complaints of some RIP44 packets not
reaching their destination, enough so that routes sometimes
vanish from the RIP44 table on the receiver. Although there is
currently little I can do about packet loss on the network,
I have slowed down the rip sender by 100 microseconds per sent
packet to avoid saturating buffers on busy networking equipment
and thereby avoid causing possible congestion loss. This means
that it now takes a little over a second to send the complete set
of (currently) 26 RIP44 packets to each of (currently) 435 gateways.
I don't know if this was the cause nor whether this will help,
but it's a cheap fix and it may help. Slightly slower packet
delivery shouldn't negatively affect anyone.
RIP44 transmissions are still sent every five minutes.
- Brian