HDLC does NOT work between vendors. Every vendor put their own spin on it,
so Cisco can not interoperate with 3Com or Bay. HDLC only works between
like vendors equipment.
At least, that's what I've seen in my experience.
Charlie Clemmer
Bay Networks
At 06:19 PM 5/21/97 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
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>Does anyone know if HDLC works between vendors? Surely it does.. but I
>haven't ever tried.
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>On Wed, 21 May 1997, Charlie Clemmer wrote:
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>> If only Cisco created HDLC......
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>> I believe you'll find that the three main router vendors (Cisco, Bay,
>> 3Com) do support HDLC. That doesn't mean that you can interoperate with
>> any of these by using HDLC, but it does work in a single vendor
>> environment.
>>
>> When you need to interoperate, you need protocols like Frame Relay or
>> PPP to do so.
>>
>> Perhaps that's why Livingston only supports those protocols? What's the
>> benefit of adding HDLC to a Livingston box if it can interoperate with
>> other vendors?
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