:>
:> - Recent values of GateD are distributed under a very unfriendly
:> license.
:
:Must be more to it, then. The basic idea of what the OSPF router
:program should do, it doesn't sound like a huge problem to do, and the
:actual specs are pretty well laid out and public, right?
:
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:Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data
Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior even on
'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, like BGP.
GateD is *very* unfriendly. It is user-unfriendly and it is
OSS-unfriendly. It is not something I would like to see in the
base distribution ( nor something I think we could put in the base
distribution ). Also, the older, more OSS friendly versions of gated
have too many bugs to be useable as a base. The OSPF implementation
in it wasn't really fixed until late last year.
For a knowledgeable programmer, building an OSPF router is not too hard to
do, especially on modern UNIX systems like FreeBSD and Linux which
have route monitoring sockets and fine control over the kernel routing
tables. It would be a very cool thing to add. About a man-month worth of
programming & debugging.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
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