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Foil 42 Hardware (2)

From Introduction to Internetworking Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
1 bridge - a network device that connects two (or more) LANs and forwards or filters data packets between them, based on their destination address; bridge operates at the Data Link Layer (OSI) and is transparent to higher network protocols
2 switch - multi-port device designed to increase performance; packet are filtered or forwarded based on their MAC source and destination addresses. There are Cut-Through switches and Store-and-Forward switches
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