Membership by Port Let’s look at the first method for determining or assigning VLAN membership:Port-based — In this case, the… Read More

VLANs provide many internetworking benefits that are compelling. Reduced administrative costs—Members of a VLAN group can be geographically dispersed. Members… Read More

Well, the reality of the work environment today is that personnel is always changing. Employees move departments; they switch projects.… Read More

Difference Between Layer 3 Switching and Routing Layer 3 switches tend to have packet switching throughputs in the millions of… Read More

Packet Manipulation at Layer 3 How does Layer 3 switching differ from Layer 2 switching? Layer 3 switching requires rewriting… Read More

Recently, the industry has been bombarded with terminology such as Layer 3 switching, Layer 4 switching, multilayer switching, routing switches,… Read More

Routed versus Routing Protocols Confusion often exists between the similar terms routing protocol and routed protocol. Routed protocols are any… Read More

Static Routing Static routing knowledge is administered manually: a network administrator enters it into the router’s configuration. The administrator must manually… Read More

Network and Node Addresses Each network segment between routers is is identified by a network address. These addresses contain information… Read More

Routing Tables To aid the process of path determination, routing algorithms initialize and maintain routing tables, which contain route information.… Read More