Okay my concern overall is not that it is in IOS 12. It's that it is in IOS XE 
and (possibly) other images.

Is there a list somewhere of what images support it? If not there probably 
should be.

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To: Drew Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Hilliard <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [c-nsp] TIL: Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP)

Right. I rarely say this, because I know how much legacy cruft is out there, 
but: there is basically zero chance anyone on earth wants this capability.

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 12:24 PM Drew Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, in my research I noticed that OS image age has nothing to do with it. 
> Newer images with different trains have it enabled, older images in totally 
> other trains as well.
>
> Also even though it appears to emulate VTY simply configuring the transports 
> doesn't disable it.
>
> I mostly mentioned it because when I did some Googling I noticed it is 
> referenced as being included in IOS XE.
>
> It should be forcibly removed entirely in my opinion.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 5:09 PM
> To: Drew Weaver <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] TIL: Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP)
>
> Drew Weaver wrote on 04/08/2021 16:43:
> > Sorry for the noise if you are all aware of what MOP is but if you 
> > aren't aware of what it is and use Cisco products (especially in a 
> > multi-tenant environment) it may be a good idea to read about it and 
> > evaluate any impact it may or may not have on your environment.
> MOP is one of those services that seems to disappear and reappear on various 
> cisco software versions and trains, almost at random.  It would be 
> interesting to know how much of the old DECnet stack is needed to keep this 
> particular fossil alive.
>
> It leaks link-local frames. This is harmful.  We don't like it at IXPs.
>
> "no mop enabled" disables it on a per interface basis - this is possibly the 
> only cisco command that uses "enabled" instead of "enable" for this context, 
> i.e. this is very ancient.
>
> Nick
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