Depends on your definition of "open standard". As far as I can tell there are no RFC's for IGRP or EIGRP, which is pretty much the criteria for something to be considered an "open standard" in the Internet community. Also, I don't believe Cisco has released the source code for either IGRP or EIGRP. Based on that, I would consider both routing protocols to be proprietary. I believe some non-Cisco companies have interoperable implementations of IGRP, but my guess would be they either reverse engineered it or paid Cisco for the code.
In short, by most definitions, IGRP/EIGRP would be considered proprietary. Regards, Kent At 11:38 AM 11/18/2002 +0000, hktco wrote: >When I learned it for CCNA and CCNP, I was told that IGRP is Cisco >proprietary. Until recent, I was being told that IGRP is no longer >proprietary >and became an open standard. > >I would like to verify on this. Any input from authority would be nice. >Thanks. > >hktco Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=57631&t=57603 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
