Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: chuckr@picnic.mat.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. Message-ID: <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281432380.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> <67008.925326749@verdi.nethelp.no>
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:> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it
:> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP.
:
:Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI
:IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I
:believe they are now.)
:
:Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
I consider ISIS dead these days, though I'm sure there are people who
still swear by it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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