From: Sumeet Gohri (sgohri@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 03:23:48 GMT-3
HDLC implementation of Foundry networks is also compatible with Cisco....
my 2 cents
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gardiner" <gardiner@sprint.net>
To: "W. Alan Robertson" <warobertson@earthlink.net>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: T-1 Encap Preference
> 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?
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