PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (11/14/87)
Date: 6 Nov 87 11:43:58 GMT
From: steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett@uunet.uu.net (Bruce G Barnett)
Subject: Is there an EGP that is available?
If we wanted to run EGP (External Gateway Protocol) on an Internet/mail
gateway for the purposes of dynamically finding routes to other
machines, where do we get this program?
Is the source available?
I know that Sun sells it with their DDN SunLink product.
What about Ultrix/4.3bsd?
What are the other protocols available - and what do people recommend?
Thanks,
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Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
uunet!steinmetz!barnett
Bruce,
EGP is not a routing protocol. It is a `reachability'
protocol. There isn't sufficient information in EGP
to avoid certain routing pitfalls, like looping...
I believe it is FTP'ble either trantor.umd.edu.
The archive is called "gated.tar", and is in the
/pub directory.
The source is in the public domain (I think).
It should be the most current version. Also,
Phil Karn recently found a minor patch for it that
he claims avoids most of the ARPAnet trauma seen
in the last few weeks, when EGP packets are fragmented
and/or excessively delayed.
His posting was also on TCP-IP.
-Philip