From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 14:50:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E76D14C1E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 47567 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Apr 1999 21:50:08 +0000 (GMT) To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:39:39 -0400 (EDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:50:08 +0200 Message-ID: <47565.925249808@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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: - OSPF *is* more complex, and you need to learn more to configure it properly. - OSPF is arguably overkill for small networks. - OSPF can't be used in 'listen-only' mode like 'routed -q'. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message