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> > Ask cisco for the protocol 8)
>
> The ISL encoding spec is public, the spec for their VTP
> control protocol is not. I asked why not and basically
> their legal people want to tie up patents first. I asked
> would the free software community get a free license to
> the patents, he said yes.

Cisco are pretty cool on the whole. They have some stuff they consider
very proprietary and lots of stuff they dont. The ask cisco was meant
as in "then go implement it.."

One of the replies I got was a patch for ISL on Linux. Which is cool


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