On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

> One other wish, though: it'd be really cool if the router could
> support a modern routing protocol, since our kernel is capable of
> supporting e.g. variable-length subnet masks.  In this respect RIP
> does not qualify.  It'd be really cool if it could do e.g. OSPF.
> However, as far as I know, free implementations of OSPF are even
> harder to come by (nonexistent?) than free and good SNMP monitoring
> software.

This is true of RIPv1, but not RIPv2 which handles variable length masks.
Our routed(8) supports both. For a free implementation of OSPF you could
always port the kernelized version presented by the 'Xinu' operating
system (as described by 'Internetworking with TCP/IP' volume 2).

	ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/Xinu

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