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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing
To: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 15:58:45 -0600 (CST)
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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