Date   : Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:03:13 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

Rob wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > Also, English as she is spoke. A bridge connects two self-similar
> > facilites. You travel along a road over a bridge to another road.
> > Changing mode from railway to bus requires a connection with more
> > capability that a bridge.
> 
> <pedantic tongue in cheek mode>
> Hmm.. So what do you call that thing that allows lorries to drive off
> a road onto the eurotunnel train wagons, whereby they are encapsulated
> for their trip through the tunnel, before being unpacked again in
> France, to carry on their merry way?
> 
> Bit like econet packets being transported by IP?
> </pedantic tongue on cheek mode>
 
Exactly, it's not a bridge. It's two back-to-back gateways ;)
 
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