Switching

3 switching entries.

• Out-of-band management (console)

  A console port is the out-of-band way in — how you (or your laptop) talk to a switch or host itself, separate from the cables that carry customer traffic. The data plane is the…

• L2 vs L3 switches (switch class)

  Switches come with different amounts of brains, and the price tag follows. A "basic" switch just shovels packets between its ports — no smarts, cheap, and happy until you give it…

• Spanning tree (loop guard + standby)

  When two paths now reach the same place, traffic can circle round and round forever instead of arriving — that is a loop. Left alone, a loop becomes a broadcast storm: the same…