> On Apr 12, 2022, at 1:44 PM, Todd Goodman via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > 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. For 802.3, a physical layer relay is called a repeater. Other LAN types, if they have such things, may use other names; for example FDDI calls it a concentrator. paul
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