On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:34:51PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > And you didn't know that the RIP spec is even older, and was publicly > available via an RFC (the same as OSPF?)
But, of course, RIP sucks in many well-known ways. > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. I thought the "open" referred to the algorithm -- i.e. "shortest open path first" would be a synonym. I have no reason to think this, though. I could well be wrong, and probably am. > > OSPF has been around for a long time. > > But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. X.25 is older than IP, which clearly makes it better in all circumstances. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
