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From: ward@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Cisco Router DECnet NCP/NML Query
Message-ID: <1991May24.163130.1153@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 20:31:30 GMT
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In an earlier message to this newsgroup I posed
some questions regarding the Cisco AGS+ router
with respect to how it handles DECnet NML
protocols (NICE protocols). I also gave an
example regarding the Proteon router we have
which may be (unintentionally) misleading.

Even though I was asking questions and expressed
my uncertainties, I want to follow up so that
my first messsage query does not mislead.

Neither the Cisco nor the Proteon respond
directly to DECnet NCP/NML communications.
The Proteon simply ignores such attempts while
the AGS+ does issue an error/rejection message.

As far as I am able to determine, both the AGS+
and the Proteon can transparently bridge (at the
protocol level) the DECnet NCP/NML NICE protocols
(and other non-routed protocols).  This makes
both routers effectively transparent to the
DECnet NCP operation.

           ward@cfa.harvard.edu