> 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.
If you're referring to IGRP, IGRP (or EIGRP for that matter) is not link-state/SPF/Dijkstra, but rather a distance vector algorithm (DUAL). The only other commonly used SPF algorithm is IS-IS. Cheers, Chris -- BellSouth Corporation, Advanced Data Services, Sr. Network Architect c...@adsu.bellsouth.com -wk, c...@gnu.org -hm "Affiliation given for identification, not representation." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
