A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

Fragment-free switching is also known as runtless switching and is a hybrid of cut-through and store-and-forward switching. Fragment-free switching was developed to solve the late-collision problem. A ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

is there any way to set up eth connections not as 1 IP, but as switch ports, maybe the computer itself has a virtual IP of 172.16.0.1, but it has 3 computers hooked up to it, A, B, & C, & a WAN ...

Optimized for the growing IP DSLAM market, the Xpeedium2Pro CXE-2139 single-chip 28-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) layer-2/layer-3 switch/router includes forwarding and classification functions and ...

Sample Design and Configuration for Layer 2 Out-of-Band Deployment Sample Design and Configuration for Layer 3 Out-of-Band Deployment This chapter covers the configuration of the Out-of-Band (OOB) ...

I'm dealing with layer 3 switching for the first time, as part of moving into a new office. A larger organization has given us some space in their building and is giving us access to their corporate ...