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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Talking to cisco routers with Unix machines
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.035824.13136@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9008142108.AA03724@jade.berkeley.edu> <1990Aug18.225126.3678@santra.uucp>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 03:58:24 GMT

In article <1990Aug18.225126.3678@santra.uucp> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>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 ?

There is no reason why you couldn't run SLIP at FDDI bit rates, should
you really want to. :-)  I'd guess that 64kbaud is synchronous rather
than async, in which case SLIP's applicability is a bit more dubious,
but the idea is not impossible even so.

>I suppose the protocol Cisco routers use to talk to each other is not
>any standard protocol but Cisco's own...

In the long run they will probably use PPP, I would think.  What they
use *now* is a different question; it may well be proprietary.
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