On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:01 pm, Abhishek Daga wrote:
--- JTD <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> 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