From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 29 19:10:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tch.org (tacostand.tch.org [199.74.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8220114F64 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ser@tch.org) Received: (from ser@localhost) by tch.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA00972; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ser) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:09:56 -0800 From: Steve Rubin To: Bill Fumerola Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switch vs bridge (fwd) Message-ID: <19990329190956.A961@tch.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:23:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:23:01PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Peter Brezny wrote: > > > is a switch the same thing as a multi port bridge? > > Not hardly. > > A switch replicates packets based on their Ethernet destination. Which is exactly how a bridge behaves. -- Steve Rubin ser@tch.org TCH Network Services http://www.tch.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message