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From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Message-ID: <Cu8BzK.Bs@calcite.rhyolite.com>
Organization: Rhyolite Software
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 18:42:55 GMT
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In article <3256t1$rbn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes:

> ...
>>- Dynamic routing (routed) did not work and was disabled.
>
>	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.


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com