[63995] in North American Network Operators' Group
... WWIU / Orientation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Mon Oct 13 18:31:01 2003
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: bep@whack.org
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: robert@tellurian.com (Robert Boyle), alex@pilosoft.com,
nanog@merit.edu (Nanog Mailing list)
In-Reply-To: <3F8B167D.1010209@whack.org> from "Bruce Pinsky" at Oct 13, 2003 02:17:49 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> |> Yep, I think 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.
> |>
> | 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."
> |
> | How does that sound?
>
> Like the start of some new RFC :-)
>
which way is up? perhaps you had better state the
problem in terms of X,Y,Z coordinates at a minium.
Adding the fourth vector, time, may be useful as well;
e.g. "... it was a router last night..."
--bill
