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What's the difference between router and switch l2 or l3 and hup?

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Question added by عاصم داود , ITandNetworking Administrator , Environment Quality Authority
Date Posted: 2013/10/08
Sabarish George
by Sabarish George , Sr.Test Engineer (Engineering Product Division) , Aricent

Hub mainly belongs to a L1 layer in Networking ----> it just broadcast the packets through a common single collision domain ( it doesnt know to whom it is transfering)

 

Switch is a Layer2 device which based on the mac address it will forward the packets to a destination mac (multiple collision domain but single broadcast domain)

 

Router is a Layer3 device which based on the ip forwards the packets .

 

 

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