Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904271923070.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199904272211.SAA07565@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:50:08 +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no said: > > >> Finally learned enough about routing to understand this. Which router > >> program does OSPF? Gated? > > > Yes. > > >> Since OSPF seems to have a lot of good features, and it's hardly new, > >> why isn't a router using OSPF installed with FreeBSD? > > > Probably because: > > [three good reasons deleted] > > Most importantly: > > - Recent values of GateD are distributed under a very unfriendly > license. Must be more to it, then. The basic idea of what the OSPF router program should do, it doesn't sound like a huge problem to do, and the actual specs are pretty well laid out and public, right? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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