Schlagwort-Archive: address

Routing by hearsay

The concept of a router appears very simple, but indeed it’s quite remarkable. A router does not necessarily know, where a destination is actually located, but it may know at least the direction. When it receives a packet, it reads … Weiterlesen

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a switch is a switch is a switch

Switching and the corresponding devices are most fundamental for today’s networking. Switches are those little boxes at home (or not so little boxes in the data centers), where You plug Your network cables in and out. Yes, earlier on there … Weiterlesen

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