>The main point here is that I most likely need RIPv1. It used to work >with OpenBSD 4.0. I still need to publish using RIPv1, otherwise I >(actually, the firewall) will not be understood. > >Would the the zebra package be a relatively safe alternative?
Use whatever hardware router is common and supported at your (crazy) institution. If that is a 2500-series, decade-old Cisco, so be it. Use that and then toss the on-going maintenance issue back over the fence to the people who insist on running Mc-RIP-disculous-v1. Then put your OpenBSD box on the local area port on the edge router and run the firewall in bridging mode in between the router and your distribution switch so you don't have to play hack with your routing table. Why can't they just point a static route to your firewall? Or does their hybrid-retro Proteon/Kalpana/Ungermann-Bass backbone running over unsheilded twisted-barbwire not support that? (sorry, but Claudio's email made me laugh and I had to continue the mocking...) --J
