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The difference between an ethernet bridge and a switch is that the bridge only has two ports, while the switch has multiple ports. When there is a lot of traffic going through the ports, the bridge traffic may get tied up or crash often because there are only 2 ports for information to travel back and forth.
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What is a Ethernet switch used for?
Ethernet switches are used to make possible communication between different network meaning, switches create networks. Also switches use different mechanism of forwarding communication between computers as well as it does not share one channel for multiple computers.
How do I switch my Ethernet internet link to my USB modem so I can use my Ethernet for different hookup?
put a usb in your laptop and transfer your ethernet file to the usb then place it where ever you want to have ethernet
Devices in the topology diagram require an Ethernet cable between them?
PC1 to Switch, Switch to R1, C2 to R2
How do you split one Ethernet line for two users?
A switch will allow you to share a single connection between multiple users with the switch handling the data between the different users. Netgear do reasonably priced switches (check out Amazon).
What is an Ethernet switch and where does it fit into the OSI model?
Ethernet switch fits on osi physical layer
Why switch is data link layer?
Data link layer refers to things that happen within a single network; that's what a switch does. Only a router (or equivalent device, which I would still consider a "router") is able to connect different networks.The different networks may use the same technology (for example, Ethernet and Ethernet), or different technologies (for example, Ethernet and Wi-Fi); a switch is only able to connect parts of a single network that use the same technology (often this will be Ethernet).
What would be used to limit the expansion of an Ethernet collision domain?
In the olden days you would use a bridge because hubs were one collision domain. The bridge was basically an expensive switch. Today on switches each switch port is on its own collision domain.
How does a bridge device improve performance on an Ethernet network?
how does each device work? what are the advantages of each? 1.switch 2.hub 3.bridge
What is an ethernet switch expansion slot?
expands the amount of Ethernet cables you can have.
How many ethernet or fast ethernet interfaces does the switch have?
kill urself
How does an Ethernet switch forward a broadcast frame?
it s connected by the bridge network connection
