... WWIU / Orientation

[bmanning () karoshi com]

> |> 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