[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3

[Guy Almes]

John,
   Not *quite* the same thing, but in pre-BGP 1987 it was very useful 
that cisco supported the Dave Mills Hello protocol.  This allowed our 
little NSFnet regional in Texas to peer with the ARPAnet via EGP and to 
peer with the Fuzzball-based proto-NSFnet via Hello.
	-- Guy

On 2/2/25 12:28 PM, John Shoch via Internet-history wrote:
> Jack Havety wrote:
> 
> 
>> Corporate networks used "multiprotocol routers" to run a simultaneous
>> mix of different Internets over the same circuits and equipment they had
>> purchased. ...
>> During the 1990s and 2000s, I watched as all of those competitors
>> disappeared.? It seemed like it happened almost overnight.? Few people
>> today likely even remember they existed.??
> 
> 
> OK, so this has provoked me to ask a trivia question, especially for all of
> you who know more about Cisco than I do:
> "In the early days, how many networks or protocols were handled by Cisco's
> multi-protocol routers?"
> I certainly don't know.  But as a starting point, the Computer History
> Museum has a t-shirt on display from Cisco.
>      https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/ 
> catalog/102696803__;!!KwNVnqRv!BjLk8qWVyT_65OX_rMuO- 
> bG5iqDXWbK3sqY9AyyjBEcDHy4RAJ4Plzusxzk-apQ4MlbkEGQhwGrOdCF9fpc-WdKosc-f6g$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102696803__;!!KwNVnqRv!BjLk8qWVyT_65OX_rMuO-bG5iqDXWbK3sqY9AyyjBEcDHy4RAJ4Plzusxzk-apQ4MlbkEGQhwGrOdCF9fpc-WdKosc-f6g$>
> Don't think I can attach a photo here, but it says on the front:  "Others
> talk about it."
> And on the back it says:
> "Cisco Does It!"
> TCP/IP
> DECnet IV and V
> Novell IPX
> AppleTalk I and II
> ISO CLNS (OSI)
> SDLC Transport
> Banyan VINES
> Ungermann-Bass Net/One
> 3Com 3+/3+Open
> Xerox XNS
> Apollo Domain
> Xerox PUP
> CHAOSnet
> SNA
> NETBIOS
> PPP
> X.25
> DDN X.25
> Frame Relay
> SMDS 802.6
> 
> I wonder if that list was sorted by market share at the time, in their
> deployments......
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