:couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. : :> :> OSPF has been around for a long time. : :But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme.
Which means.... nothing. RIP was designed for a time when networks were simple. It has no multipath capabilities, it can *barely* handle subnet masks, and it figures out when a route is dead by letting packets loop until their TTL runs out. Also, propogation of state loads the network in a non linear fashion and breaks down when you have a lot of nodes. It works, but it isn't fun. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message