a router and a layer 3 switches.
Using a layer two network device (a switch) which will minimize broadcast storms because the device will maintain a table of hardware addresses and forward packets only to the relevant port.
end device malfunction because of broadcast storms
A broadcast storm can cause a network to become too congested to transfer any useful traffic; switches are susceptible to broadcast storms.
A broadcast domain is created any time you connect several clients together via a network connectivity device, such as a hub or switch or bridge. They would all be in the same broadcast domain for every client connected to them. Since a router does not forward broadcast messages, it creates different broadcast domains.
switch
Defects in networking devices are malware-infected computer,broadcast storms....
SwitchDescription: Network Switch a device that seperates the Broadcast domain of a LAN segment from other segments.
router
ROUTER!
A Router
Divide the computers into separate VLANs on the existing switches. ?
Large numbers of hosts on a single network:Actual Data OverheadA big part of the overhead is broadcasts.In this context, each network is called a broadcast domain.Switches forward broadcasts to each device connected to a switch port.If we can reduce broadcast overhead, it would improve performance on the network.