In message <199904281914.maa08...@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, sth...@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 p...@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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
