In <[🔎] 380-2201091623840406@netptc.net>, owens@netptc.net wrote: >>---- Original Message ---- >>From: bss@iguanasuicide.net >>>In <[🔎] 380-22010905162433906@netptc.net>, owens@netptc.net wrote: >>>>>---- Original Message ---- >>>>>From: peasthope@shaw.ca >>>>>>From: "PT M." <pentie@gmail.com> >>>>>>Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch, >>>>>>"Switches may operate at one or more OSI layers, including >>>>>>physical, >>>>>>data link, network, or transport (i.e., end-to-end)." >>>> >>>>Lots of terminology confusion. It used to be hubs were at level 1, >>>>switches at level 2, routers at level 3 and gateways above level 3. >>>>Larry >>> >>>TL;DR: That's an over-simplification or a case of nostalgia. > >I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these >WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with. I love to see an actual ISO or ITU document that provides a normative definition of the any of those terms. Since you are claiming such a document exists, perhaps you could provide a URL, ISBN, or other reference? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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