Retro networking / WAN communities

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/12/22 1:05 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> But that's a marketing document.

Eh ... Maybe.

Cisco has plenty of purely technical documentation on the same subject 
with effectively similar technical information.  That was just the first 
link that I found that wasn't a "hub" in the social sense where people / 
community / etc gather to communicate; a la this mailing list is a hub 
of technical minds & discussion.

> That doesn't match how I see the history.  From the DEC point of view, 
> non-learning packet switches did not exist.  We sold either real 
> bridges, or routers, or (early on) repeaters.  I never heard of a DEC 
> customer using non-learning devices; if anyone had and ran into trouble 
> I'm certain our answer would have been "please use a real bridge".

That may be the case inside the DEC ecosystem / community.  I don't 
know.  I do think "please use a real bridge" is definitely a sensible 
response.  I know I've said "please use a switch instead of a hub" 
multiple times.



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