Chapter 4. Principles of LAN Switches

Those of you who read the Introduction before starting in on the rest of the book have been primed for what happens now. (After this, we bet you'll read the Introduction to the next book you buy.) Here we are, in Chapter 4 of a book about LAN switches, and all we've talked about so far are bridges. When do we get to the switching stuff?

Well, we already did, but you didn't realize it. Those of you who read the preface and followed its instructions are excused from the homework assignment.

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