Re: Re (2): Linux hub

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, owens:

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 01:08:40 owens@netptc.net wrote:
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> Boyd
> I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these
> WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with.  IIRC it was the
> vendors who screwed things up by introducing such products as
> "swithcing hub"

For one time this is not because of marketing: a "switch" *is* a switching hub 
just as a "hub" is a multiport repeater.  They are just plain descriptions of 
what they do.