A.1 If you
want to telnet into the switch you should give the switch an IP address.
This IP address should be applied to VLAN 1. "Administrative
Interface"
A2 The NIC on
the PC will broadcast their MAC address to the switch. You're getting the
correct picture. However, if for some reason you are not being able to
communicate between both PC's you need to check the port assignments on the
switch. All ports should be assigned to VLAN 1 by default. If the
ports are not asigned to the same VLAN they are going to be on seperate
broadcast domains. This means that in that case you'll need a router to do
the job.
I try to be as
simple as possible.
Paulo
If you're still
confused don't quit.
I've been confused
since the day I've started in this business.
Paulo
-----Original Message-----
From: Raees Ahmed Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:23 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Switches !!!
Dear All,
Thanks for your discussions on this often ignored topic, but still I could not understand the communication logic. May be have to dig more into switching in the physical layer.
If all the ports of the switches have mac addresses than
q.1 If somebody telnets to swithes the actual physical communication occurs through which mac address.
q.2 If two pcs are connected to the same swithc, and they want to communicate the real communication should go like this ( pc mac- switch port mac - destination switch port mac - destination pc).Totally confused arp arp arp.
Please Help.
Shaikh Raees Ahmed,
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer,
Systems & Network,
IT Division.
