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> Thanks for the flattery. :)
>
> But as your post and others on this thread show, there are so many
> features that smart bridges/hubs/switches can have that the all this
> terminology quickly gets blurred.
>
> Still, I find that thinking of switches as multi-port bridges, and of
> hubs as multi-port repeaters is the simplest conceptual compression of
> all of the various concepts that apply, and it's not too inaccurate.
>
> Also, I can imagine bridges that use layer 3 information to best manage
> traffic. I'm pretty sure they exist too (and are used by those
> unfortunate souls who have to put up with briging LANs across WANs).
Cable modems can be considered layer 4 bridges in that at their core,
they are bridges, but they can provide layer 4 filtering capabiliities
and future cable devices may support type of service bits in the IP
header.
Just thought I'd entertain your musings.
Cheers,
Matthew
So
> switches that have VLAN and/or layer3 routing capabilities can still be
> conceptually similar to multi-port bridges.
>
> :)
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