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Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 75, 2 channels, and ACO (fwd)



On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Mark Eissler shaped the electrons to say...
> >What's going on? I'm connecting to a Livingston PM3 at the far end. Is the
> >feature also reliant on DBA with an Ascend at the far end? If so (which I 
> >suspect), then that's really getting retarded.
> 
> Correct.  Ascend units require MP+ or BACP on the other end.
>

So the Ascends do implement DBA properly then? And, I assume, the other
units are using some kind of hack in order to implement it (i.e. not using
BACP)? Or is BACP the proprietary part of Ascend's implementation?
 
> To make your lives easier, since Ascend is admittedly a major client
> vendor, ComOS 3.8 will have BACP.
>

Cool. We're at 3.7 so hopefully 3.8 will roll out soon. I'll have to check
that out. Thanks for the info. :)
 
> The Zyxel isn't the only one that doesn't need these - the Office Router
> doesn't either.  Nor does the Bitsurfer.
> 

Yeah, and probably the 3com TA, Farallon Netopia (erk!), Cisco
7xx? etc.....

> -MZ
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