Re: [nsp] Using Cisco routers for layer 2

From: Kraig J. Owen (tko@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Dec 30 1997 - 12:39:01 EST


Terry,

A quick look at RFC1701 says he is one of the authors, along with three
other astute individuals, of the Generic Routing Encapsulation protocol.

Kraig

At 09:15 AM 12/30/97 -0800, Terry Martin wrote:
>This guy claims to be the designer of the GRE FYI
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>At 10:20 AM 12/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>> More specifically, the protocol is frame-relay, but the pvc endpoints
>>> would be in different chassis. Eric K. says it's possible to do this with
>>> GRE tunnels. Probably what I was looking for.
>>
>>That's exactly what I *designed* GRE to do. It was developed to allow
>>implementation of MFS Datanet in a pre-ATM world, just for the record.
>>
>>Stan
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