Re: switch newbie

<cmk128@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
My friend told me the switch will not assign IPs to clients but
router will. Is he correct?

Neither switches nor routers assign IP addresses. If you are in dhcp
mode, the dhcp server assigns the addresses. If you are in manual
mode the user assigns the IP address through some software program.

In the "old days" all these devices you are talking about were separate
boxes. Now one box many different functions - thus confusion.

What is the different between switch and router?

A switch connects 2 or more computers and makes connections
so that all the computers do not get a broadcast, only the two computers
communicating (as opposed to hub). In a hub everyone shouts so everyone
hears, in a switch only the two computers communicating get the broadcast.
Look up virtual lans and virtual circuts.

so far i know, you
can link two linksys switch to get 200% speed

The slang for getting 200% speed really means that the data is traveling
both ways at the same time. In a 100 baseT network, the connection
means that the data is traveling at 100MB/s in one way. If the data is
traveling both directions at the same time, it is like getting 200MB/s of
effective rate, or 200% speed. You don't need to connect 2 switches
together to get this phenomenon.

later.....


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