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.
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