MAC layer for a switch and a router
Bookmark this page:
 Yahoo!
 Google
 Windows Live
 del.icio.us
 digg
 Netscape
|
|
||||||||||
|
Posted by Michelot on November 30, 2007, 4:25 am
Please log in for more thread options I am thinking a curious thing I had never considered before, or simply forgot. (1) A basic hub has no MAC layer, so it can look at Ethernet addresses. (2) A basic switch is a layer 2 interconnection device, so it can consider Ethernet addresses. (3) A basic router is a layer 3 interconnection device. It has a MAC layer like a switch but, besides, each port has it own Ethernet address. What would be the difference between a "switch MAC layer" and a "router MAC layer" that makes in one case we don't have an Ehernet address and in the other case we have an Ethernet address? Perhaps the MAC layer can be divided in several sublayers. Thanks for your advice, Michelot | ||||||||||
| Similar Threads | Posted |
| MAC layer for a switch and a router | November 30, 2007, 4:25 am |
| Low-end Layer 3 switch? | February 14, 2006, 6:19 pm |
| Layer 2 switch vs Layer 3 switch | October 5, 2007, 1:28 pm |
| HELP!A SURVEY ABOUT THE LAYER-3 SWITCH | February 17, 2006, 12:34 am |
| Layer 3 switch model? | March 30, 2007, 1:20 pm |
| Routing between VLANs using a Layer 3 Switch | March 24, 2005, 11:39 am |
| Placement of Layer 3 3COM switch query | May 31, 2005, 12:56 am |
| FS/FA: $160.00 Extreme Networks Summit48 Switch w/basic layer 3 (works great) 2944 | August 9, 2005, 1:31 pm |
| IP layer and layer 2 IGMP Snooping | June 7, 2008, 1:28 am |
| about of router and switch | July 12, 2007, 3:18 am |
| VPN/router/switch/NAT questions... | August 26, 2004, 8:28 pm |
| Router connected to a switch. How does it work? | December 3, 2004, 6:18 am |
| Gigabit core router/switch | July 26, 2005, 10:15 am |
| Managed gigabit switch as router..? | August 6, 2007, 7:43 am |
| difference between Repeater,hub,bridge, switch,router, gateway | November 26, 2008, 5:01 am |