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Re: is manual keying mandatory

"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Tue, 24 March 1998 01:01 UTC

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Bronislav Kavsan writes:
> Dave Carrel wrote:
> 
> > We all know why manual keying doesn't scale and we
> > all know why it's impractical in most real world situations.
> 
> Just admitting this makes this MUST a big joke...

It wasn't MUST on the basis that people were going to use it on large
networks.

It was MUST for very different reasons.

In any case, I believe the topic is quite dead.

Perry

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