"Graham Murray" <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote in message
news:87prul9aeo.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk...[color=blue]
> Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@spamcop.net> writes:
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>> Graham Murray wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> SPI is to do with internet packet inspection, is it not???
>>>
>>> Google would seem to indicate otherwise. The first hit on the query
>>> 'SPI' returns the Wikipedia article for 'Serial Peripheral Interface'[/color]
>>
>> Good example of why not to rely on websearches alone. SPI with respect
>> to firewalls is Stateful Packet Inspection.[/color]
>
> Yet the original post did not mention firewalls, it mentioned
> routers. It is perfectly conceivable that a router might use an SPI bus
> as a data highway between 2 or more of its chips.[/color]

A detail only likely to be of interest to its designer. Stateful Packet
Inspection,
being a feature, is much more likely to be of interest to the end-user
--
Graham

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