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RE: Extreme BlackDiamond

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Mon Oct 13 19:04:35 2003

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:36:51 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Robert Boyle" <robert@tellurian.com>, <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc: "Nanog Mailing list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Robert Boyle wrote:
> "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?

That would make a great April 1 RFC!

Michel.


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