For a long time, the reason was US export restrictions. Those have only recently been lifted, but not lifted completely. The penalties still have enough teeth in them to make roll-out more than a bit touchy. I'm actually surprised to hear that SSH is out already, in IOS v12.x. Since I play almost exclusively with Cat 6509's and 3512/24 XL's I haven't seen it, or maybe I wasn't looking.
From: Mr. James W. Laferriere [mailto:babydr@baby-dragons.com] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:34 PM
Hello Dylan, Knew this was coming . But I'd hoped that the supported platforms would have been a little larger . Just the 7200 & UP . Seems cisco thinks ssh puts a bit of load on a cpu ? I can't see that for just a terminal session though . Twyl, JimL