On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Doug Hughes wrote: > The lines between switch and router have blurred to such an extent that > switch is a nearly meaningless term these days without saying L2 or L3 > behind it (some even have L4+!).
Heh -- excellent point! > so, your second paragraph is only true if the switch is a pure L2 > switch. Agreed, and that's what I intended. > Almost all HP switches, for instance, are L3 capable, so it's > perfectly reasonable for his switch to not have to send packets to a > router. The vlan just needs to have an IP address associated with it on > the L3 switch and voila, it's also now a routing interface, so long as > the hosts on the vlan point to it as the default gateway. Got it. I'm just not sure how capable his switching device is. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
