[MLB-WIRELESS] Revisiting OSPF

[Richard Ap-Thomas]

Well it makes sense to me. Eventually the melbourne group is going to 
become too big to manage with OSPF, and if it starts getting links to 
other major groups (like regional centres, or even NSW / SA!) then it 
would probably start getting seriously screwed up. Its better to plan 
ahead with an exterior routing protocol and skip the painful process in 
5 years (or 2 years depending on how fast the network grows).

I guess the thing I would be most concerned with would be the ease of 
use for casual users, are people going to be able to hook into the 
network easily? I mean once the casual user is hooked in he/she doesn't 
really care how the backbone works, and the casual users are still going 
to end up being the majority of the network.

But I agree, an exterior protocol would make the most sense in a network 
that is largely uncontrolled and prone to fluctuating connections to 
other networks (gosh people may even provide links to the in-ter-net..!).

Still, a move to a new protocol system-wide is a big thing and its 
probably worth a reasonably long change over period, since routers have 
to be recompiled, brought down from masts and such. How many core 
routers would really have to be changed?

Richard.

Dan Flett wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've been having some discussions with the people on the Quagga-Users
>mailing list about OSPF and routing in general.  The Quagga Mail Archive
>doesn't list the thread properly so here are the interesting posts so
>far
>

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>...
>

>
>PS, there's a good intro to BGP here:
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/bgp.htm
>As always, Google is your friend.
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