Hi Mike,
 > I hope this is a joke, because I cannot imagine anyone
 > learning this from the standards documents.  In any
no it is not. I read Christian's book. But very often a suplier/reseller says 
'my products are full standard" and you must find by yourself if it is true 
or if it is not. then you neeed to know how the Protocol has to work, and 
show that it is not true !
for example, I had to show to ACC that their version 7 was not compatible 
with their RIP protocol as described in the RFC ! without the RFC (and frame 
capture, of course) they would have go on saying that's the problem of 
routing (with soft routers from Netware) was quite normal.
 > Radia Perlman's more
 > technical "Internetwork Routing."  OSPF and spanning
 > tree algorithms generally are extremely complex.
   I'm going to see if I can find this book in France.
Thanks.
Hubert
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