ospwd@emory.uucp (Peter Day {EUCC}) (04/26/88)
(Since the question was originally posted to both the BIG-LAN BITnet list and this newsgroup, the summary is being posted both places as well. I hope anyone who reads both will forgive me for the multiple posting.) Thanks to all who responded to my question: >How can I get more specific information about the Routing Information >Protocol (RIP) used by Proteon, and gated, a demon which translates >between RIP and EGP, the External Gateway Protocol? RFC 827, 888 and 904 describe EGP, the *Exterior* Gateway Protocol. RFC 827 is less formal and is easier to read. RFCs are available from a number of sources, but in particular, may be obtained by sending a note to service@sri-nic.arpa with Subject: RFC nnn where of course nnn is the RFC number. Here is a summary: "From: Charley Kline <KLINE@UIUCVMD> The best functional description of RIP is a paper called IDEA004, soon to be an RFC, from Chuck Hedrick at Rutgers. Gated an implementation of RIP and HELLO and EGP, and the best documentation of that I know if is the gated man page. In a complex networking environment though, you need to have a deep understanding of what is going on to use gated effectively From: Philip Prindeville [CC] <philipp@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Send mail to "service@sri-nic.arpa" with subject as "get idea:idea004.txt". Or, ftp to sri-nic.arpa and login as anonymous. cd into "idea:". get the file idea004.txt. "From: David Wasley <dlw@violet.berkeley.edu> There is a document available from the sri-nic that describes RIP. It is currently called IDEA004 but may become an RFC. Here is the blurb on how to get this: The IDEAS can be found at SRI-NIC.ARPA (10.0.0.51). Login as 'anonymous'. The directory is <ietf>. Each IDEA is named "IDEAnnn.TXT", where nnn is the IDEA number. The indices are IDEA-INDEX.TXT (the short index, no abstracts) and IDEA-INDEX-ABS.TXT (the long index, with abstracts). "From: "Mark S. Fedor" <fedor@nisc.nyser.net> Peter, I have written a implementation paper on gated which was just accepted for presentation and publication at the summer 1988 USENIX conference. There is also a gated document (man) page. The routed(8) man page describes RIP, but the ultimate RIP document was done by Charles Hedrick of rutgers. The document is available via anonymous FTP from topaz.rutgers.edu or I`m sure hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu could mail it to you.
gross@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Phill Gross) (04/28/88)
> The IDEAS can be found at SRI-NIC.ARPA (10.0.0.51). > Login as 'anonymous'. The directory is <ietf>. Each > IDEA is named "IDEAnnn.TXT", where nnn is the IDEA number. > The indices are IDEA-INDEX.TXT (the short index, no abstracts) > and IDEA-INDEX-ABS.TXT (the long index, with abstracts). As luck would have it, Charles Hedrick has just submitted a final version of the RIP paper, which has not yet been placed at the NIC. He just mailed it to me yesterday and it is still sitting in my mailbox. This also comes at the exact same time that we are changing the IDEA numbering scheme to accomodate revisions (rather than issuing new numbers). So it may be Monday before the new version gets into place with its new not-quite- zip-code-sized number IDEA0004-01. I strongly encourage interested folks to wait for the new version. It is this version that will be submitted as an RFC. I promise to mail a notice to this list as soon as the new RIP document and the new numbering scheme are in place. As they say, timing is everything. Phill Gross