[MLB-WIRELESS] So how does this routing bit work?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:25:59AM +0000, vortex wrote:
> not sure what your position is on this, but don't even think of layer 2 
> 'routing'. that's definitely the scalable role of this IP thingie.

It's generally called 'switching' at layer 2, but the effect is the same.
An switch uses layer 2 addresses (an Ethernet switch looks at the MAC
addresses), while a router uses layer 3 address (IP addresses, IPX
addresses, etc).


Hamish
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