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List:       freebsd-net
Subject:    Re: switch vs bridge (fwd)
From:       Steve Rubin <ser () tch ! org>
Date:       1999-03-30 3:09:56
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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/


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