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At 06:16 PM 3/18/98 -0800, Dan Wing wrote: >In article <[email protected][198.3.136.121]>, [email protected] (Dean >Anderson) wrote: > >>There pretty clearly *are* routers in the diagram. Those would be those ... >There would be routers around the firewall (or the firewall is a The diagram is one of the better examples of a mixed blessing I've seen in awhile. It is frankly and extraordinary and impressive piece of work both in detail and packaging, cleverly taking advantage of the infinite page length of the web. Unfortunately it pretty much serializes into two dimensions an architecture which is 3 dimensions. I haven't a clue how to fix that. The problem is that routers, vs. DNS servers vs. mail and web servers each occupy a different layer. In presenting the architecture as a serial stream, it is difficult to get the sense of this layering. d/ ________________________________________________________________________ Dave Crocker Brandenburg Consulting +1 408 246 8253 [email protected] 675 Spruce Drive (f) +1 408 249 6205 www.brandenburg.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
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