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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12193 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3097 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!sundance!cmetz From: cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Date: 9 Aug 1994 16:53:22 GMT Organization: Information Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory Lines: 30 Message-ID: <328ca2$rqu@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <31trcr$9n@euterpe.owl.de> <3256t1$rbn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <Cu8BzK.Bs@calcite.rhyolite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil In article <Cu8BzK.Bs@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >In article <3256t1$rbn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes: > >> routed is inherently broken for routing. Gated works on Linux fine, >>however. >I hope you mean that Linux's routed is "inherently broken for routing," >not that routed itself doesn't work. In BSD based IP systems, gated >has very few advantages over 4.3BSD routed for version 1 RIP. In fact, >gated's RIP advantages, fancier and more flexible configuration facilities, >are also a disadvantage. Many commercial UNIX systems come out of the >box with routed installed and turned on. >Of course, outside RIP version 1, gated has many advantages, supporting >OSPF, egp, and so on. RIPv1 is very broken, IMO. (And in the opinion of many others) Just because vendors ship systems with RIPv1 routing (routed) in by default doesn't mean it's any less broken. routed itself has some other brokennesses in its interaction with the rest of the system (at least in implementations I've used it on [Linux is not one]). The Linux version of routed is no more or less broken than the one from NetBSD, given that it's almost identical. Using gated and OSPF or BGP is definitely the better solution to this problem. -Craig