On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:57:03 +0000
Martin Cooper <mjc@cooper.org.uk> wrote:
RFC is not the law, RFC are guidelines, and its not only the 800
that has this issue, nor cisco.
> Today I learned the shocking truth: the Cisco 800 series is not
> compliant with RFC-1812 ("Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers").
>
> 1812 says the following:
>
> "A router that implements any routing protocol (other than static
> routes) MUST IMPLEMENT OSPF (see Section [7.2.2]). A router MAY
> implement additional IGPs."
>
> The 800 series supports RIP, so by this requirement it should also
> support OSPF. I know the 800 series is a toy router, and I wouldn't
> much care about OSPF support if it wasn't an RFC requirement, but
> really, I would have liked to think that a company with as long a
> history as Cisco would be able to manage to properly implement the
> requirements of such a fundamental RFC. Apparently not... :-(
>
> Is the ignorance of fundamental RFC requirements going to be
> spreading to other products in the Cisco range I have to ask?
>
> M.
>
-- Neil J. McRae C O L T I N T E R N E T neil@COLT.NET
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