In message <199511170553.AA05133@zed.isi.edu>, bmanning@ISI.EDU writes:
Here is round two... Last Chance B&G. It's off to the drafts directory in the early morn. (~14:00 UTC) TTFN..!! ----------------------------------------------
Network Working Group net39-testgroup Request for Comments: 19xx bill manning - editor Category: Experimental November 1995
You might want to mention that gated has no problems. All modern BSD and Sys5 based host implementations support subnetting, however some host implementations can handle overlapping subnets and others cannot. BSD4.4 based OS have no trouble with overlapping subnets. All earlier BSD implementations will eventually crash. I think Jeff Honig changed the radix tree to fix this and it got into BSD4.4 (maybe we should confirm with Jeff). I think AIX4 is fixed. All Sys5.4 based implementations are suspect. [note: Solaris and Irix5.2 have been seen to crash due to overlapping routes. Leave out this note.] This has implications for the use of BSD or Sys5 based boxes as routers. You can mention that the NSS routers had no trouble, in case someone has any doubt about this or wants to buy an NSS (I've been told that Advantis has received a few serious inquiries). Although not participating in the exp39 testing, Baynet routers pass testing in the lab that would indicate they would have no problem with this. Curtis