On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:34:51 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Robey > <chu...@picnic.mat.net> said: > > > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > Because a previous link-state (aka shortest-path-first) routing > protocol had been deployed which was not. > > > But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. > > Um, no.
I don't know which was invented first, but I have a stack of books here that all aver that RIP was used on arpanet long before OSPF. The date on the rfc seems to back me up. Which one should I quote? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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
