... And seeing as that all most switches are is a glorified multiple port bridge, feel free to go to your 7500 and make it a switch by placing "bridge-group 1" on every port, and if you want to get really crazy and make it a L3 switch, go all out and put in a "bridge 1 route ip". :-) -----Original Message----- From: Michel Py [mailto:michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:02 PM To: Richard A Steenbergen; Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Extreme BlackDiamond

Richard A Steenbergen wrote: So a 7500 with a fast cache is a L3 switch? :)

Of course. It does wire-speed switching with one and Possibly more CX-EIP6 if you enable dCEF :-) Michel.