Re: SHOCK NEWS: Cisco not RFC-1812 compliant

From: Danny McPherson (danny@qwest.net)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 17:34:41 EST


If anything, the RFC should be updated.. RFCs are at most BCP documents, not
law .. it's really not that shocking. Really.

-danny

> 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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