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From: almes@RICE.EDU (Guy Almes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Router interoperability
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Date: 24 Oct 89 13:46:03 GMT
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It is well known that you can't currently put different makes of
router on different ends of a serial line.  The easiest explanation
is data link and encapsulation.
  Will support by the various vendors of the coming point-to-point
protocol correct this situation?  I know that it's intended to be
a move in the right direction, but is there a claim that it will
be sufficient?
  I'd like to hear from people on the PP protocol IETF WG, and
from knowledgeable others.
  One benchmark question: will the situation be as good as when
routers of multiple makes are placed on an Ethernet?
	-- Guy