I agree with Alex. People don't seem to realize that GateD ran the NFSNET backbone for years. Now, the key difference is that was the Cornell version and now we have Merit enhancements and fixes some of which are quite important. The Cornell version is free, though I know there are bugs in it those bugs are documented. Some of the bugs are not *really* bugs -- most notorious to me is the issue of OSPF restart (change your BGP policy, HUP GateD and watch your entire OSPF cloud lurch under LSDB recalculate because one router restarted OSPF). Merit fixed GateD to avoid this problem by redoing the OSPF code. That work was funded by the GateD Consortium, which is where your $10k goes. So take your choice: Cornell Gated for free with some fixes over what ran the NSFNET, or Merit GateD with some real improvements for pay unless you get a research license to play with it. Dana Hudes Graphnet Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
There is ONLY (ONLY) two well-debugged and wideworld checked router implementation now - first is CISCO IOS, second is GATED. First is checked over million CISCOs, second was checked by MERIT's back-bone, by a lot of ISP who used gated for their host-based routers, and now by those vendors who implemented gated into their routers. I do not think it's an excellent product (through nothing is excellent in the Internet), but in comparation to the other implementation it's out of competition for now (remember a lot of Internet bums caused by Wellfleet? RIP broadcast storms over the inter-sea links caused by Annex? And so on...).
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Scott Mace wrote:
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 02:03:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Mace <smace@intt.ORG> To: brad <brad@poofy.tbn.tm> Cc: rmeyer@mhsc.com, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: $110,000 for Gated Source Code
I think you would be suprised at the number of commercial networking vendors that use GateD source code as the basis for their routing protocol suite...
Scott
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