> |> Yep, I think 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. > |> > | A small problem... all of my 7200s have horizontal line cards as do the > | Juniper M5/7/10/20. The smaller 7100, 3700, 3600, 2600 also have > | horizontal line cards too. So... here is a correction. > | > | "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..." --bill