On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 00:01 +0000, Mike Hughes wrote:
* How do you differentiate between a switch/router and a router?
Ooh, that's easy: just look at the crap they spew towards the peering fabric. :-)
A lot of people are deploying C76xx as peering routers ...
<rant> ... which should be prohibited by law. Actually, C76xx should be prohibited by law. </rant>
... At the same time it permits switch/routers, and various LAN/Ethernet extension services, as long as they are sensibly managed and configured.
Right. It does give complications wrt. trouble-shooting connectivity though. Switch port up but no traffic (L2 black-holing), a single L2 provider with a loop or misconfiguration causing port security violations on all of their customers' ports, communication channels when those problems come up, etc. Having said that, so far it's still pretty manageable. -- Steven