In your letter dated Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:42:53 -0600 you wrote: > The second case is a CPE ingress router with N routers behind > it. In this case, I humbly submit that anything where N is > greater than 2 says medium sized business maybe larger.
>From a layer 3 point of view, I think you are right (but these things are hard to predict). What happens in practice though is that routers cost about the same as switches. So people may stack routers in weird ways just because they need more ports somewhere, or a wireless basestation, etc. It not always easy to figure out how to switch off the routing functionality and get the device to become a switch. Moreover, most users are probably not even aware that there is a difference. So in practice, I wouldn't be surprised if routers would get stacked quite deep. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
