On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:01 pm, Abhishek Daga wrote: > --- JTD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These "switches" are not managed switches which is what the pro > > means when he says switches. They are souped up hubs. > > Router is a 802.11b Wireless ADSL Router with 3 port switch built > > > > > in. > > > > again is the "switch" here a hub?. If it is a switch u would have > > three additional ip addresses - one for each i/o. > > If u really want some fancy control connect your hub/switch and > > router to four ethernet cards in a debian box and use the box to > > do all sorts of fancy filtering and bw managment. > > At the risk of sounding kindergarten, I'll admit that I did not > know about those switches being souped up hubs. I have learnt a new > thing today. > To answer your question about the IP addresses. No. there are no IP > addresses. The router has 2 ip addresses (LAN/WAN).
so that is just another souped up hub. > But the boxes say Switch. Surely Dlink/DAX know that they are > selling?? Or maybe I did not read the fine print. Welcome to the world of network double speak. They do but would not want you to know. The fine print is just below unreadable (never published). if u connect two such "switches" via the uplink port packet transfer from from one to the other is minimised. But on the ports of each switch everbody essentially receives everbody else's packets. Run ethereal and see. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
