Hi, On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:43:10PM -0400, Mike Johnson wrote: > What happens if a layer 2 switch receives a frame that needs to be forwarded > out the same > port that the incoming frame was received on?
"drop"
> Im realize that a typical layer 2 switch would never forward that packet
> upstream in the first place.
> However, If it did in fact happen what does the upstream L2 switch do?
This is a very typical scenario if you hook an ethernet *hub* to an L2
switch port, and have two devices connected to the hub talk to each other.
gert
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