I could be wrong, but I always thought the distinction between hub and bridge was, all traffic is broadcast to all ports on a hub. A bridge allows traffic to be segregated (albeit still on the same subnet).
73 Eugene W2HX Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/w2hx-channel/videos -----Original Message----- From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1:29 PM To: cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Retro networking / WAN communities On 4/12/22 7:56 AM, Todd Goodman via cctalk wrote: > The big difference in my mind between bridge and switch is: > > * Switches learn what port given MACs are on and only sends unicast > traffic destined for that MAC address on that port and not all > * Bridges send unicast traffic to all ports So what would differentiate the bridge (using your understanding) from a hub? -- Grant. . . . unix || die
