[c-nsp] DECNet & LAT Tunneling

[Kevin.X.White at corusgroup.com]

This is the only specific negative point I have found,
I take your point on 1994 CPUs, our H/W is 2950 access layer so it is current kit.

Kevin


>http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080088082.html#16089
>
>Tunneling might create problems with transport protocols with limited timers (for example, DECnet) due to increased latency.



Kevin.X.White at corusgroup.com <> wrote on Wednesday, February 09, 2005
5:12 PM:

> Does anyone have any experience of using GRE tunneling with DECnet or
> LAT? The CISCO doc. suggests timeout issues due to the increased
latency
> of the CPU based encapsulation.

>general answer: It should work. I think a large customer is still using
>it. While browsing through internal databases, I also found the
>statement "it sucks", but this email was dated 1994 where CPUs were a
>magnitude slower than today ;-). Which doc did you find on CCO?
>

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