I really don't know... I've never had to play with OSPF on subinterfaces.
>Another thing I would like to see is the ability to do OSPF on dial-out
>locations! RIPv1 just doesn't cut it for these kind of lines.. If
>Livingston supported RIPv2 it could I could live with it though. Why
>can't you do OSPF on dial-out locations anyway?
It is a whole other RFC to implement. And it is messier than the others
really. And since we have almost no demand (I think I've seen you and
maybe two other users ask) it just doesn't register on the engineering
radar.
Note that we don't do virtual links in OSPF either - the only thing in
the RFCs that we don't do. Why? Because that is messier than most
of the rest. Know what? I have *never* had anyone ask for them. They
are rarely used even on boxes that do support them.
There needs to be suffcient demand to warrant engineering investment.
And since 99.9% of the users (probably more than that even) seem very
happy with it now, it hasn't been warranted.
The fact is, the number of people actually using our products for dialout
is very low. And of those, very, very few would have *any* need for OSPF.
Most dialout is done from a stub lan into a office network, and running
any active protocols over a link like that is completely pointless.
If there is only one exit from a room, you don't need a map to the door.
I hate to say it Stephen, but you seem to be doing some things with the
products that almost no one else is doing. And you are running into the
'majority rules' wall. I've seen you asking for a few different things
over time here, many of which aren't something the majority of the
customer base seems to be interested in.
The things we have demade for are things like compression, VPN, NAT,
a POTS port on the OR-ISDN, NFAS, etc... Only a bare handful have ever
asked for things like dialin/out OSPF, RADIUS by port, HDLC, etc. SO
they aren't likely to happen.
It is just that, unlike a lot of vendors who are happy to blow smoke
and wave their hands, I would rather give you a straight answer. At
least then you aren't being strung along - you know where you stand
and can make your decisions.
-MZ
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