From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 15:31:54 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 5B89A14BC9 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:31:47 -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 SAA20276; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:28:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:28:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Matthew Dillon , Jim Shankland , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. In-Reply-To: <199904282103.RAA11123@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 Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > Because a previous link-state (aka shortest-path-first) routing > protocol had been deployed which was not. > > > But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. > > Um, no. I don't know which was invented first, but I have a stack of books here that all aver that RIP was used on arpanet long before OSPF. The date on the rfc seems to back me up. Which one should I quote? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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