>> Yep, I think from now on, we should make this a primary distinction
>> between switch and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a
>> router, if horizontal, it is a switch.
>>
> A small problem... all of my 7200s have horizontal line cards as do the
> Juniper M5/7/10/20. The smaller 7100, 3700, 3600, 2600 also have
> horizontal line cards too. So... here is a correction.
>
> "From now on, we should make this a primary distinction between switch
> and a router: If a device has vertical line cards, it is a router, if
> horizontal, it is a switch, unless there are two or more vertical slots
> within any horizontal slot plane, then it is, in fact, a router."
>
> How does that sound?Like the start of some new RFC
which way is up? perhaps you had better state the
problem in terms of X,Y,Z coordinates at a minium.
Adding the fourth vector, time, may be useful as well;
e.g. "... it was a router last night..."
--bill
