(ref #4) Do you really do that kind of work in your closet -:)?
""Howard Berkowitz"" wrote in message
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> 1. There isn't a hard-and-fast distinction between a layer 2 switch and a
> bridge. In general, a layer 2 switch has microsegmentation
> and may have VLAN support and, in general, more intelligence.
>
> 2. Speaking as someone that actually works in layer 3 relay design, there
> is no true technical difference between a layer 3
> switch and a router. Just saying ASIC vs. "software" is bogus; it's
> not a black and white distinction. Some ASICs are
> programmable. There's a spectrum of processing chips anyway, from
ASIC
> to FPGA to RISC to CISC processor. In many
> cases, the bottleneck isn't the forwarder anyway--it's memory or
> fabric.
>
> 3. When line rates are being thrown around, simple numbers aren't enough.
> See RFC2544 for a vendor-independent
> measurement methodology.
>
> 4. The industry uses "switch" a great deal because marketdroids have
> convinced the executive masses that
> routers are slow and switches are fast. I believe I paraphrase
> Oscar Wilde when I say that if, while seated in
> the smallest room of my house, I had a paper with such a definition
in
> front of me, it soon would be behind me.
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