On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > > > Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI > > IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I > > believe they are now.) > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but OSPF stands for Open Shortest > Path First, and thus "Open" in this context would have nothing to do > with how "free" it is.
I don't quite get that. It's a Djikstra calculation, using flooding to pass connection data ... does the SPF mean that it uses hop count only to figure path? Not any delay or traffic loading? > > > -- Chris Dillon - cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdil...@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). > ( http://www.freebsd.org ) > > "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of > courage to trust Windows with your data." > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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
