From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 22:57:30 GMT-3
I believe that Juniper routers support HDLC as well.
Thanks,
Jason Gardiner
Supervisor, Engineering Services
Sprint <Insert Division Name>
"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and
still come out completely dry. Most people do."
- Norton Juster
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, W. Alan Robertson wrote:
> > HDLC is a Cisco-proprietary protocol.
>
> Not to nitpick, but HDLC itself is not proprietary; Cisco's
> implementation is... HDLC was developed by the International
> Organization for Standardization (ISO). It falls under the ISO
> standards ISO 3309 and ISO 4335.
>
> Like others have pointed out, PPP is the way to go when mixing
> vendors, since it is an Internet standard.
>
> There may be one exception, however, but I cannot confirm it 100%...
> I was out at one of my customers a few weeks ago, and they were
> changing ISPs. I asked the new ISP whether we ought to be using PPP
> or HDLC, and he said HDLC. I commented on their use of Cisco
> equipment, and he told me that the head-end router was actually a
> Juniper box.
>
> Now, it seems reasonable to me that the new kid on the block, so to
> speak, would attempt to seemlessly interoperate with the most widely
> used routers, but I cannot say for sure. Can anyone confirm this?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Fri Jun 21 2002 - 06:45:25 GMT-3