From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 16:27:31 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 8E40315036 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:27:19 -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 TAA95694; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:24:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. In-Reply-To: <199904272211.SAA07565@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 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 Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < > >> 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