MORE, MORE, MORE!!! I love TLA's. But don't worry, I can quit using them
anytime I
wan't, I'm not addicted (conflicting opinions of my students not
withstanding)!
Prof. Tom Lisa, CCAI
Community College of Southern Nevada
Cisco Regional Networking Academy
Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
> Cisco probably chose SNAP for CDP because SNAP is supported on Ethernet,
> FDDI, and Token Ring. That probably made the implementation a bit simpler.
> Other than that, SNAP doesn't have any advantages that I can think of.
>
> Also, I can't remember the exact details, but sometime late in the 1980s,
> the IEEE stopped assigning 802.2 SAPs. SAP is just a one-byte field and
> they were concerned about running out. So most newer protocols use the SNAP
> SAP and include a SNAP header. Since Ethernet II was supposed to go away
> (hah! ;-), and simply using IEEE 802.3/802.2 wasn't possible since they
> couldn't get a SAP, they were left with SNAP.
>
> Did I use enough TLAs in that? ;-)
>
> Priscilla
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