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Re: impossible circuit


From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:27:44 -0500

George Carey wrote:

Since your fix was layer 2 you might be onto something. And you have the time it happened, and as we all know - somebody changed somethin' even if they won't fess up.

I have not pencil-and-papered this to see if there is anything to it, but I was wondering what would happened if you put a layer-two bridge into a back-bone fabric and turned off "learning" so every packet is flooded to every port.
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