Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!LYNCH From: LYNCH@A.ISI.EDU (Dan Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Ethernet ring Message-ID: <12386880485.30.LYNCH@A.ISI.EDU> Date: 1 Apr 88 04:46:44 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 Alex, Thanks for the excellent tutorial on the difference between layer 2 and layer 1! (or have I messed up the numbers???) It continues to amaze me how innovative people can figure out how to maximize things for new situations. In the last few weeks I have seen references to "brouters" (bridge/router -- level 2/level 3 animals). I get the feeling that the primorial ooze of networking (or distributed computation) is still in the fermentation stage and is not "ready for drinking". Anyway, Steve, you got "lucky" ("smart" is more accurate because Steve know there was a resource out there, somewhere) because Alex chimed in. Dan -------