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To: Greg Hull who wrote (1648)	11/22/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4808

Greg, No, you don't have it screwed up, I did. Oh the ignominy of it all. Like missing the barn door shooting from the hip. But not as shameful as season tickets to both Cal and the 9'ers. Now there's full duplex, get it coming and going. Ethernet Switching - burks.brighton.ac.uk >>The introduction of switching can overcome congestion, due to the non-deterministic nature of CSMA/CD, by dynamically routing frames across networks. Don't confuse switches with routers - strictly speaking, switches are layer two devices and routers operate at layer three. Just to confuse matters, layer three switches are being developed to support the growing needs of large corporate intranets. The first generation of layer 3 switches were known as High Function switches. These devices employed a mixture of hardware switching and software routing. This represented a compromise because the performance benefits of switching were sometimes lost with the reliance on slow software. The new generation of layer three switches route using hardware only.<< Switched ethernet currently has inherent limitations to scalability and many Enterprise configurations deploy switched ethernet across ATM backbones, as IBM roadmaps it in its migration path to ethernet switching whitepaper: networking.ibm.com Looks like FC SAN to ATM backbone to GE servers to switched clients (or DSL/Cable clients in the Internet model) is in the works for the immediate (well, near) future. Mr. Gilder, with all due respect, sometimes forgets that it takes more than one spoke to envision a wheel. Douglas