Hubs, Bridges, and Switches
I will not sptoo much time on the first three terms of this section because there's a good chance you are familiar with them anyway. Hubs are basically denoted as an Ethernet data link layer device that connects point-to-point physical layer links, such as twisted pair or fiber optic cabling into a single shared media network. Bridges and switches both operate under the data link layer. A bridge is a network device which helps connect multiple data link layer network segments into a single logical network segment. There are different types of bridges:
Transparent or learning
Encapsulation
Translational
Source-route
Source-route translational
Even though the Cisco IOS implements each of the types of bridging above, the ...
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