... WWIU / Orientation

Tue Oct 14 00:43:21 UTC 2003

> > | "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..."

maybe polar coordinates are better situated for distance vector protocols?

> --bill

--Johnny