From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 11:37:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E36E1571B for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19411; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:34:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:34:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Jim Shankland , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. In-Reply-To: <199904281828.LAA07993@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Matthew Dillon writes: > : > :> Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior > :> even on 'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, > :> like BGP. > : > :Matt, can you clarify what you mean by "open" here? I know it's > :what the "O" in OSPF stands for, but in what way are OSPF and > :BGP more open than RIP? > : > :Jim Shankland > :NLynx Systems, Inc. > > You can download the protocol spec without putting forth cash. > I haven't looked at it for a long time so I don't have a URL handy. And you didn't know that the RIP spec is even older, and was publicly available via an RFC (the same as OSPF?) I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > OSPF has been around for a long time. But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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