|> Yep, I think from now on, we should make this a primary distinction |> between switch and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a |> router, if horizontal, it is a switch. |> | A small problem... all of my 7200s have horizontal line cards as do the | Juniper M5/7/10/20. The smaller 7100, 3700, 3600, 2600 also have | horizontal line cards too. So... here is a correction. | | "From now on, we should make this a primary distinction between switch | and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a router, if | horizontal, it is a switch, unless there are two or more vertical slots | within any horizontal slot plane, then it is, in fact, a router." | | How does that sound?

Like the start of some new RFC :-)

which way is up? perhaps you had better state the problem in terms of X,Y,Z coordinates at a minium. Adding the fourth vector, time, may be useful as well; e.g. "... it was a router last night..." --bill

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which way is up? perhaps you had better state the problem in terms of X,Y,Z coordinates at a minium. Adding the fourth vector, time, may be useful as well; e.g. "... it was a router last night..." Easy: horizontal is same direction as 19" mounting brackets ;)

I've yet to find a square switch/router that can be rack mounted either horizontally or vertically ;)

-alex

like the 19" spacing between the rails mounted on my wall? --bill