[c-nsp] Cisco Layer 3 Switch Recommendation

[Scott Weeks]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:

: i dont remember who stated that 'switchs do l3 and routers do L2.
:
: wrong!!!


The person that said that was doing tongue-in-cheek w/o putting a smiley
face a the end of the email.  I am pretty sure randy knows a little bit
about the differences in LAN switching and routing.  Just a little... :-)

c'mon, it was fun for a while, but this is getting silly.  For the new-b
folks, just think of the functionality of the various *parts* of the box.
A router segments an address space and forwards packets between them.  A
LAN switch broadcasts frames to every node within one of those segmented
address spaces.  If performance becomes an issue, talk to the SE of the
vendor about what you're trying to do, not the marketing person.  Leave it
to the mgmt folks to talk to the marketing droids.  They speak the same
language.

scott