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From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@cyber1.net>
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Peter Brezny wrote:

> is a switch the same thing as a multi port bridge?

Not hardly.

A switch replicates packets based on their Ethernet destination.

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