VAX 11/725

From: Adrian Graham <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Tue Dec 7 15:02:40 2004

> > dates from the days before people realised that a
> point-to-point link
> > is not a network
>
> Well there certainly were non-point-to-point synch implementations
> around: DEC DDCMP supports multi-drop links.

I'm coming late into this one, but isn't a Cisco serial link (ie frame relay
or X21) point to point and also multi-drop?
 
> There's an RFC around somewhere that allows for /31 subnets
> for such purposes (.1 and .0 being allowed as the two ends).
> No idea if it ever caught on though.

Eep, I'm just getting used to /30, don't complicate things :)

cheers

w
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