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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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Subject: Talking to cisco routers with Unix machines
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Date: 18 Aug 90 22:51:26 GMT
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In article <9008142108.AA03724@jade.berkeley.edu> of mail.sun-nets, 42-5360)CLIFF%edu (CLIFF <(Cliff Frost {415})) writes:

>Has anyone had any experience using SLIP and/or PPP from a Sun
>(a 3/50 or SPARCstation) at 56 or 64Kbits/sec?  I'm interested
>in using one of the serial ports to do this.

To extend, has anyone written software to talk to Cisco routers at 64
kbits/sec ?  I understand that Cisco's support SLIP, but can that be
run at 64 kbit/s ?

I suppose the protocol Cisco routers use to talk to each other is not
any standard protocol but Cisco's own.  Are the protocol specs
available ?  If not, would Cisco object to someone reverse-engineering
the protocol ?

A local PTT here offers a service to connect company LANs together
with Cisco routers; if a general-purpose Unix machine could talk the
Cisco protocol and route the traffic (perhaps also DECNET traffic) one
could save the money needed to buy the Cisco router.  Well, perhaps I
shouldn't have said that because I suppose it's not in the best
interests of Cisco ;-)

//Jyrki