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Re: using active hubs & FDDI

#21
From: pettengill
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 07:38
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In article <nrksjfc@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>, vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:

|>DEC is among the vendors of such more-than-bridges-less-than-routers.
|>I think they call their boxes "transparent bridges," like others in
|>the industry.

Nit:

The term used is `translating bridges'; bridges are by nature `transparent'.

mulp
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Subject: Re: using active hubs & FDDI
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