>At 07:29 PM 6/27/01, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>>  >Howard?  what problem is the "doohickey" trying to solve as opposed to
the
>>  >thing-a-ma-doogey"?
>>  >
>>  >(OK, I will stop if you stop, if I stop...:))
>>
>>I'm so tough at networking I'm going to go out in the garden and eat
>>some edible podded-peas.
>>
>>The doohickey sounds like an RMON probe.
>
>Far from it. The problem it is trying to solve is very limited: enabling
>the insertion of an analyzer in a point-to-point full-duplex link without
>resorting to inserting a hub.
>
>WAN analyzers also have pods. They are used to enable the insertion of an
>analyzer between a router and CSU/DSU.
>
>These things have little intelligence. They are just doohickeys. They are
>also called taps sometimes.
>
>Priscilla


Something is inconsistent.  A hickey is the mark left by at least one 
form of quasi-vampire tap.  Wherein  comes the doo?




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