All Cisco-Network Study Notes

VLANs provide the means to logically group several end stations with common sets of requirements. VLANs are independent of physical location...

Switches typically are Layer 2 devices (some switches now perform Layer 3 and higher functions). According to the OSI model, the data unit p...

A switch must learn the addresses of the devices attached to it. First it inspects the source address of all the traffic sent through it. Th...

From a network efficiency standpoint, it is easy to see that it is much better for the network when the switch knows all the addresses on ev...

From time to time, a device on the network will want to communicate with all other “local” devices at the same time. Typically, this occurs ...