IEEE standards vs. Cisco features

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 20:11:37 GMT-3


** the professional list seems to be down, so I thought I'd send this
to the other lists as well. I spoke to Paul, who is in a massive
traffic jam driving from DC to Atlanta, and won't be near a computer
soon**

Especially as VLAN features increasingly are standardized, it's worth
knowing the IEEE equivalents to some Cisco features. We may very well
see the proprietary things deprecated, just as ISL was deprecated in
favor of IEEE 802.3q. (in fairness, ISL still had some advantages
until 802.3s and some other standards were introduced).

Anyway, I've put a draft Word document with some of my notes on my
anonymous ftp server at www.netcases.net, directory /resources.
Comments and additions are welcome.

Other directories contain some of my presentations (mostly NANOG with
some IETF and Internet Society) as well as some Internet Drafts and
RFCs I've written or coauthored.

I won't guarantee that all browsers can get to
ftp://www.netcases.net. You may need to use a real FTP client.
There's no content as yet under html.



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