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Re: Ethernet "WAN"

dsiegel's picture

Doug, you are right about switches generally taking collisions out of the picture, but the fact is that at least one VPLS implementation in a router vendor does not behave like a switch and blindly forwards all broadcasts and packets that enter the VLAN. In my mind, this is a bug, but the fact is that if implemented as currently available, ethernet collisions and broadcast storms could occur on the WAN. The solution to this little problem is to put a router at each CPE location, but doesn't that sort of defeat the point of what many customers thought Ethernet service would do for them?

dsiegel – Fri, 2006 – 03 – 10 11:27

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