Not unless its a water closet... :-)
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On 6/7/2001 at 1:27 PM Luke wrote:
>(ref #4) Do you really do that kind of work in your closet -:)?
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>""Howard Berkowitz"" wrote in message
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>> 1. There isn't a hard-and-fast distinction between a layer 2 switch and a
>> bridge. In general, a layer 2 switch has microsegmentation
>> and may have VLAN support and, in general, more intelligence.
>>
>> 2. Speaking as someone that actually works in layer 3 relay design, there
>> is no true technical difference between a layer 3
>> switch and a router. Just saying ASIC vs. "software" is bogus; it's
>> not a black and white distinction. Some ASICs are
>> programmable. There's a spectrum of processing chips anyway, from
>ASIC
>> to FPGA to RISC to CISC processor. In many
>> cases, the bottleneck isn't the forwarder anyway--it's memory or
>> fabric.
>>
>> 3. When line rates are being thrown around, simple numbers aren't enough.
>> See RFC2544 for a vendor-independent
>> measurement methodology.
>>
>> 4. The industry uses "switch" a great deal because marketdroids have
>> convinced the executive masses that
>> routers are slow and switches are fast. I believe I paraphrase
>> Oscar Wilde when I say that if, while seated in
>> the smallest room of my house, I had a paper with such a definition
>in
>> front of me, it soon would be behind me.
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