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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: Bridges
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:36:44 -0500
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On 08/19/10 12:10, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> It's multihop.
> 
> They do have a routing engine however. Otherwise they'd go
> straight up the next wall.

Ok.  Fair enough.  :-)

> Did they ever tell you about that red button in their products?

Nope.

I assume that you aren't talking about Random Early Drop.

I didn't say it was complete, just that the parts that are there are 
(usually) technically accurate.

> Bad plagiarism?

Chuckle.

> Doing a thing wrong N times doesn't make it (100-100/N)% more right. :-)

True.

Though a "standard" does not imply right, just the same.

I'm not overly thrilled with SMB / CIFS networking, but it is (mostly) 
the de facto standard (for now).  (At least the simple majority.)



Grant. . . .