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Re: impossible circuit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Mon Aug 11 09:41:04 2008

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:27:44 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <489FCD17.6000301@montco.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

George Carey wrote:

> Since your fix was layer 2 you might be onto something. And you have the 
> time it happened, and as we all know - somebody changed somethin' even 
> if they won't fess up.

I have not pencil-and-papered this to see if there is anything to it, 
but I was wondering what would happened if you put a layer-two bridge 
into a back-bone fabric and turned off "learning" so every packet is 
flooded to every port.
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