Ever since Cisco went from being a router manufacturer to a company offering a full line of networking devices, mostly by acquiring several concerns, competitors have struggled to keep up.

Which turns out to be completely possible and is even sort of quasi-supported by some of the router manufacturers.

But router manufacturers are more or less continually fixing problems and adding features.

Still, only a few NIC and router manufacturers support such security features.

Vitalink was well entrenched in the LAN/Network industry, however, bridges and issues with large Spanning-Tree domains were allowing the router manufacturers to gain position.

Granted, these are routers with customized firmware on them, written by the router manufacturer to our, the ISP's, specification.

So this problem we got into unintentionally with router manufacturers just sort of thinking they were doing the right thing, turns out to be really more trouble than it's worth.

There isn't - this hasn't really - I don't think it's reached critical mass yet, where router manufacturers are acknowledging it.

And so just really due to popular demand the router manufacturers said, okay, fine, we'll stealth the port.

The company hopes to extend the architecture by getting router manufacturers to lend their support.