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Re: [nsp] Cisco DS3 Questions..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Feb 25 13:26:18 2002

To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, Mike Joseph <mjoseph@netaxs.com>,
	nanog@merit.edu, cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 25 Feb 2002 13:25:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jesper Skriver's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:16:43 +0100"
Message-ID: <87d6yth107.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:36:11AM -0800, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > 
> > At 09:24 PM 2/22/2002 +0100, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > 
> > > > int Serial0
> > > >  encap hdlc
> > > >  down-when-looped
> > >
> > >I know, but that needs to be configued in both ends, and as it's not the
> > >default, it's likely not to be configured on the CPE device ...
> > 
> > Neither is PPP.
> 
> The customer will never get the link up if he/she doesn't
> configure PPP, he/she will get link up if the link is configured
> for HDLC but they havn't configured 'down-when-looped'

The customer's failure to configure "down-when-looped" on his end will
not adversely affect the behavior of "down-when-looped" on your end.

But this argument is really pedantic and silly.  Can we call it quits?
Please?

                                        ---rob


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