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To: Lerxst who wrote (22665)	11/11/1997 2:07:00 PM
From: polarisnh	of 61433

Lerxst, <OSPF is not a Cisco proprietary protocol. Also, OSPF is not necessarily a replacement for RIP/RIP2, but rather is a more powerful routing protocol that is more appropriate for large, enterpise networks with lots of intentional path redundancies. As I understand it, OSPF will reconverge far faster than will RIP when segment outages occur and uses less network bandwidth overall.> I beg to differ with you that OSPF was not intended to a replacement for RIP. I did make a mistake for calling it a Cisco proprietary protocol. It was actually developed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and is an open protocol. I quote from the Cisco Internetworking Technologies Handbook, pg 634. "Open Shortest Path First. Link-state, hierarchical IGP routing algorith proposed as a successor to RIP in the Internet community. OSPF features include least-cost routing, multipath routing, and load balancing. OSPF was derived from an early version of the IS-IS protocol."

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