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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:48:16 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, chuckr@picnic.mat.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.
Message-ID:  <199904281948.NAA10488@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281432380.378-100000@picnic.mat.net> <67008.925326749@verdi.nethelp.no> <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com>

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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.

And some who swear *at* it still. :)


Nate


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