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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Repeaters, Bridges, Routers, and Gateways
Message-ID: <9589@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 22:00:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 22:00:27 1986
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References: <1174@decwrl.DEC.COM>
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Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <1174@decwrl.DEC.COM> gassman@jedi.DEC writes:
>What Ungermann-Bass sells as a 
>BRIDGE is actually a ROUTER, a router being a protocol DEPENDENT 
>device working at the network layer. 
>
> REPEATERS, BRIDGES, ROUTERS, and GATEWAYS are words
>that vendors and users must all agree on, while we trek towards OSI.

Sounds to me like Bill knows what he's talking about and Skip is
confused.

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