switch newbie

Hi
My friend told me the switch will not assign IPs to clients but
router will. Is he correct?
What is the different between switch and router? so far i know, you
can link two linksys switch to get 200% speed.


thanks
from Peter (cmk128@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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