Something to do with Cisco's networking code was optimized for certain Microsoft quirks. Performance would degrade when devices that followed the written spec were around such as Linux or iPhones.
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Something to do with Cisco's networking code was optimized for certain Microsoft quirks. Performance would degrade when devices that followed the written spec were around such as Linux or iPhones.