RE: Cisco HDLC Flags (was PPP vs HDLC) [7:64779]

2003-03-07 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Thanks Scott! To synthesize: The original question was whether efficiency would be improved if Cisco HDLC were used instead of PPP. Most of us said "no," which is correct, (taking efficiency to mean header overhead.) A few of us added the caveat that a Cisco HDLC header/trailer maybe has a couple

Cisco HDLC Flags (was PPP vs HDLC) [7:64779]

2003-03-07 Thread s vermill
The question was whether or not Cisco used the "standard" 0x7E as a flag in their HDLC implementation. The only WAN protocol analzer I could dig up predates Cisco HDLC by a few decades. So I did rely on an o'scope as planned. Between keepalives, a constant binary 10011001100110 c