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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (9558)	11/5/1999 3:08:00 AM
From: JRH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Cisco is one of my favorite Gorillas. Isn't it all of ours ;) ? I heard an interesting comment today in one of my classes regarding Cisco. Evidently, back in about '92, there was a dynamic-routing protocol fight to become the de facto industry standard. One was OSPF, which was supported by Synoptics (which became Bay, which became Nortel) and some other companies. Another was IGRP, which was Cisco's proprietary solution for dynamic routing. It was based on, and only compatible with, their proprietary hardware. According to my info source, the Cisco solution was a more efficient, excellent dynamic routing protocol. However, despite Cisco's gorilla status in routers, it lost the standards war. Not to say that IGRP isn't used today, but it clearly is not the industry de facto standard. The Gorilla Game would leave me to believe that this would never happen to a gorilla. Is this a chink in the armor of our sacred FM??? Justin