From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 12:19:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC53A157A5 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29191; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:19:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA24842; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:18:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, chuckr@picnic.mat.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:03 PDT." <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:18:58 +0200 Message-ID: <24840.925327138@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > >:> 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. He, the Danish telecom is spending several millions DKR right now on a study for the future strategy of their CMIP based network management, so I'm sure somebody is running IS-IS somewhere too :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message