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Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

Posted Oct 12, 2009 15:29 UTC (Mon) by jmm82 (guest, #59425)
In reply to: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) by pbrutsch
Parent article: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

"So, routers are still routers and switches are still switches. Unless you have a layer 3 switch, that is ;)"

Didn't routers stop being routers a long time ago when the first nat device was hacked together. That was the beginning of the end for simple layer 3 routing devices. Once they got to layer 4 you knew it was only time before they attacked layer 5.


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