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From: ELINSKY@YKTVMZ.BITNET ("Jay Elinsky")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Token Ring ARPs
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Date: 8 Apr 91 18:21:33 GMT
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>     Are there any products out there that use cannonical order?
>
> No; I've seen a couple of beta test releases that have reached the field
> in ignorance of the true state of the world, but it gets fixed quite quickly
> once the vendor understands about the installed base.

Actually, Version 2 of IBM's VM and MVS TCP/IP products have the "new/old
bit order configuration switch".  It's the "CANONICAL/NONCANONICAL"
parameter of the LINK statement for network type IBMTR.  The VM manual
mentions it for IBMTR links on LCS devices only, but it applies to ILANS
devices also.  The default is NONCANONICAL, of course.

                                       Jay Elinsky
                                       IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
                                       Yorktown Heights, NY