Extreme BlackDiamond

Bruce Pinsky bep at whack.org
Mon Oct 13 21:17:49 UTC 2003


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Robert Boyle wrote:

|
| At 04:43 PM 10/13/2003, alex at pilosoft.com 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 :-)

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bep

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