Layer 3 switching...

Grant Taylor <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:56:59 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Organization	Riverview Technologies Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Is it even possible or even worth while to do layer 3 switching
(bridging) on a Linux system?

Or would this be considered routing even though everything is done on
OSI Layer 2?

Which would be faster, Layer 3 switching (bridging) on OSI Layer 2 or
routing on OSI Layer 3?



Grant. . . .


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