From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 2 21:55: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF50915CAB for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 21:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ck@adsu.bellsouth.com) Received: from oreo (grommit.adsu.bellsouth.com [205.152.173.122]) by ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA02170 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 00:54:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christian Kuhtz" To: Subject: RE: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 00:51:44 -0400 Message-ID: <000701be9520$a45ccd70$7aad98cd@adsu.bellsouth.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199905022003.QAA14116@loverso.southborough.ma.us> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Garrett Wollman speaks the truth when he says: > > > 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. If you're referring to IGRP, IGRP (or EIGRP for that matter) is not link-state/SPF/Dijkstra, but rather a distance vector algorithm (DUAL). The only other commonly used SPF algorithm is IS-IS. Cheers, Chris -- BellSouth Corporation, Advanced Data Services, Sr. Network Architect ck@adsu.bellsouth.com -wk, ck@gnu.org -hm "Affiliation given for identification, not representation." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message