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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Boyle wrote: | | At 04:43 PM 10/13/2003, [email protected] wrote: | |> > 7600 is also vertical boards whereas the 6500 is horizontal. |> |> 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. |> |> Works well for 7500/12000/5x00/6500. ;) | | | 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 :-) ========= bep -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQE/ixZ9E1XcgMgrtyYRAvFMAJ9UQJtGWCn+U3rtPRPyhJLVohevGwCgxtc5 EgQ3xgSwH4u/R7RBEQZ4sk0= =Nklr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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