[64003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ... WWIU / Orientation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnny Eriksson)
Mon Oct 13 19:09:28 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 0:43:21 WET DST
From: Johnny Eriksson <bygg@cafax.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu (Nanog Mailing list)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > | "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..."
maybe polar coordinates are better situated for distance vector protocols?
> --bill
--Johnny
