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Re: Hubs vs. Switches
From:
"Janus, Philip" <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:54:27 -0500
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> A switch acts like a cross point switch, being smart enough
> to recognize which
> packets are targeted to which computers connected to it. It
> does this by
> learning the ethernet address of each connected system, and
> decoding the
> ethernet address of the destination of each packet. It routes
> that packet ONLY

Okay, so what's the difference between a switch and a router?

Philo

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