Reading RFCs is a great source of information for understanding all the details of a protocol. Often they do require the reader to be quite technical and the terminology can be confusing if you aren’t used to the type of
Some interesting RFCs
To stay updated what’s happening in the network industry it doesn’t hurt to read some RFCs and IETF drafts. Here are two I recommend that you read. A comparison of IPv6 tunneling mechanisms- draft-steffann-tunnels-00 It describes different ways of tunneling
RIP – request and response packets
I was discussing the other day with someone on IRC about a RIP issue he had. Apparently he had RIP request packets coming in and then all routers were responding with response packets with full routing table. It seemed like