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stev knowles <stev@precision.guesswork.com> Fri, 17 May 1996 04:27 UTC

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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:03:00 -0400
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sometime around 13:27 5/16/96 -0700, Fred Baker wrote us a message containing:
>Cisco routers do the protocol they're told to. If you don't tell them
>anything, they do the proprietary one. If you tell them to do PPP, they do
>PPP.
>
>Which is to say, they always DTRT, as long as their configuration agrees
>with that of the guy at the other end. :^)

in my opinion, cisco routers fail the test. forgetting RREQ, cisco routers
shoudl be smart enough to DTRT no matter what encapsulation it finds the
other end trying to use, assuming they understand how to deal with it.

sorry, i expected more from CISCO . . . . .

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