Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:58:45 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing Message-ID: <199611202158.PAA07895@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611202155.QAA20162@nimbus.superior.net> from "Christopher Masto" at Nov 20, 96 04:55:27 pm
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> Joe Greco writes: > > Ethernet switches are not supposed to do anything other than MAC level > > address routing. > > > > Switches by definition will certainly allow IP address collisions because > > they do not have a clue what the hell an IP address is. > > > > The other disadvantage of switches is the potentially large amount of > > ARP'ing that can go on to locate hosts in such a network. > > I guess you're not aware of some of the stuff Synoptics/Bay makes. Check it > out sometime - it may come in handy some day. What I'm aware of and what a switch - by definition - is, are two potentially different things. Anything that performs switching at a non-MAC layer is not an Ethernet switch, it is something else. "Learn the correct terminology - it may come in handy some day." ... JG
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