On Thursday 2010-08-19 18:41, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 08/19/10 11:21, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>Otherwise you would have to tell me whether a bulk of RFC1149-conforming >>pigeons do "routing" or "L3-switching". > >Seeing as how the RFC 1149 specifies Avian Carriers and the printing >/ scanning of data, I think it defines both layers 1 and 2. Further, >the RFC states that A.C. are a point to point technology. (Where >said points are is subject to change and storms.) It's multihop. >As such, I don't believe that A.C. do routing in any form at all. They do have a routing engine however. Otherwise they'd go straight up the next wall. >> Right... directly from the propaganda ministry. I can see the flaw in that. > >Hehe. ;-) > >Cisco may be the propaganda ministry, but most of their technical documentation >is accurate. Did they ever tell you about that red button in their products? > Or at least what it's describing is often imitated by other >vendors. Common law standard any one? Bad plagiarism? Doing a thing wrong N times doesn't make it (100-100/N)% more right. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
