On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :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.
You misunderstand. I wasn't saying it was good, I said it was first, which it was. According to my reading (reading only, I haven't looked at code) the split horizon with poisoned reverse idea is supposed to let it learn about dead routes far quicker ... pure distance vector would do that. I don't know what's actually in routed yet, and academic books are often completely out to lunch, I'm finding. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dil...@backplane.com> > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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
