On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:39AM +1200, Andy Linton wrote: Seriously, the only reason anyone would want this slow crap is that it's all the telcos want to provide because they've got this huge legacy investment in that technology and most of the people working in them have their heads too far up their asses. Remember when ISDN stood for Incredibly Slow Dumb Networking - that label now applies to this. I'm not defending telco's (trust me, really I'm not!) but telco's know how to provide 2M bearers and deal with faults on them. They know how to make these things fairly reliable... the same cannot be said for (say) 10M Ethernet in many circumstances. Generally, most of the components in a 2M circuit have bearer and various other alarms on them and systems that know about such beasts, for Ethernet these have no such visibility and probably a skill deficit to deal with things such as the evils of spanning tree :) Hmm... I think I just agreed with Andy there did I? --cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog