On 4/12/2022 1:28 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
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?
To me a hub is a layer 1 device (physical layer) that doesn't look at
the traffic at all while the bridge does look at the traffic and
generally implements 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol and processes BPDUs.
Todd
