On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:39 PM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: Well the term bridge is firmly written in my own memory :-) Tou mentioned that other company, and I'm trying to remember that name too. Was it something with 'sea" in it? No... I just found it. Kalpana. Their technology claim to fame was cut through bridging, as opposed to store & forward, so they invented the term "switching" for that. But the cut through stuff is just an optimization, and on half-duplex Ethernet a questionable one at best. It existed somewhat with 100Mb Ethernet, I think, and disappeared in Gigabit Ethernet only to come back with 10G Ethernet. Interesting... Still, though, it's just a bridge, no matter what you call it. paul