gated and Zebra

This discussion of the methods of classification of routes into realms depends on the cooperation of the dynamic routing utility. In UNIX, all dynamic routing that was not simple RIP was traditionally done by the gated daemon. The gated daemon handles all types of routing. The protocol listing includes OSPF, BGP, RIP, HELLO, STATIC, ISIS, and methods of importing and exporting selected sets of information from one protocol to another.

Since the gated daemon was handed off to the MERIT consortium things have changed somewhat. The source code is no longer freely available and the license has changed to academic and non-commercial use only. Now gated has been spun off into a corporation, which will provide a commercial version for ...

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