Retro networking / WAN communities

[Todd Goodman]

On 4/12/2022 1:28 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 4/12/22 7:56 AM, Todd Goodman via cctalk wrote:
>> The big difference in my mind between bridge and switch is:
>>
>>   * Switches learn what port given MACs are on and only sends unicast
>>     traffic destined for that MAC address on that port and not all
>>   * Bridges send unicast traffic to all ports
>
> So what would differentiate the bridge (using your understanding) from 
> a hub?
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To me a hub is a layer 1 device (physical layer) that doesn't look at 
the traffic at all while the bridge does look at the traffic and 
generally implements 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol and processes BPDUs.

Todd