[63981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Mon Oct 13 17:26:34 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:05:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031013165214.05b7cb50@mail1.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> A small problem... all of my 7200s have horizontal line cards as do the
> Juniper M5/7/10/20. The smaller 7100, 3700, 3600, 2600 also have
> horizontal line cards too. So... here is a correction.
>
> "From now on, we should make this a primary distinction between switch
> and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a router, if
> horizontal, it is a switch, unless there are two or more vertical slots
> within any horizontal slot plane, then it is, in fact, a router."
Excellent point, that also fixes the "problem" for riverstone 8x00 ;)
-alex
