Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] ISIS Checksum
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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:41:13 +0100
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:52:21PM +0100, Sebastien Tandel wrote:
>    I am not defending anything here (cause as you said I can change this
> preference rule) but I don't get to the point. CDP is only implemented
> on Cisco routers but there are also Juniper, Hitachi, Alcatel, Nortel,
> 6wind etc... Having Cisco routers does not imply you'll configure CDP.
> Furthermore, you clearly won't if there are others vendors routers in
> your network. Last but not least, CDP does not seem to support IPv6. Do
> you really think it's the best option?

Quite a few other vendors implement at least part of CDP. Also, I
consider it bad style to introduce a change to the existing behaviour
via a harmless reading changelog ("color filters update").

 ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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