On 4/12/22 1:05 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
But that's a marketing document.
Eh ... Maybe.
Cisco has plenty of purely technical documentation on the same subject
with effectively similar technical information. That was just the first
link that I found that wasn't a "hub" in the social sense where people /
community / etc gather to communicate; a la this mailing list is a hub
of technical minds & discussion.
That doesn't match how I see the history. From the DEC point of view,
non-learning packet switches did not exist. We sold either real
bridges, or routers, or (early on) repeaters. I never heard of a DEC
customer using non-learning devices; if anyone had and ran into trouble
I'm certain our answer would have been "please use a real bridge".
That may be the case inside the DEC ecosystem / community. I don't
know. I do think "please use a real bridge" is definitely a sensible
response. I know I've said "please use a switch instead of a hub"
multiple times.
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Grant. . . .
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