On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:48 am, Mike Branda wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 01:23, SOTL wrote:
> > I was assuming that both sides of your router were in the same network
> > something like
> > _________________
> > A --| |
> > B --| |
> > C --| Device |
> > D --| |
> > E --|__________________|
> >
> > Where if the device was a router with A as a LAN input and B, C, D, E
> > would be outputs connected to various devices say a PC, PC, printer, and
> > plotter and if the device was programmable then one could direct exactly
> > which packets one wanted to which device. Your choice.
>
> What you show above is a network switch. They are "smart" in that they
> know the MAC address of the device you are sending information to and as
> you put it, "direct the packets" automatically with no needed
> "programming". If you wanted to send the same packets to multiple ports
> like you asked in an earlier e-mail, you need what's called a "Managed
> Switch" with port trunking capabilities. These are more "programmable"
> in the fact that you can mess with the connection tables that are
> usually set by the switch automatically. You are essentially crippling
> a router into a switch if both connections are on the same network. Not
> to mention the fact that it may hang up a lot or you may not even be
> able to configure both IP sides to the same network. Routers have
> IP's....switches don't.
>
> A Router is more like below:
>
> ___________ _____ ___
> A -| | | | | |-D
> B -| switch | --192.168.1.1| router |192.168.22.1-- | switch |-E
> C -|lanA/subnet| | | |lanB/subnet|-F
>
> |___________| |________| |___________|
>
> A,B,C are all on a 192.168.1.0 network and want to send packets to D,E,F
> on a 192.168.22.0 network. They need to be "routed".
>
>
> HTH.
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
Thanks
Frank
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