On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:50:08 +0200, sth...@nethelp.no said: > > >> Finally learned enough about routing to understand this. Which router > >> program does OSPF? Gated? > > > Yes. > > >> Since OSPF seems to have a lot of good features, and it's hardly new, > >> why isn't a router using OSPF installed with FreeBSD? > > > Probably because: > > [three good reasons deleted] > > Most importantly: > > - 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? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
