Garrett Wollman speaks the truth when he says: > > 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.
I can't believe the amount of FUD on this issue. Read what Garrett says above because it is the reason for the "O" in OSPF. OSPF was developed by the IETF 10 years ago in response to the proprietary link-state routing protocol of a large router vender. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
