A layer 2 switch won't show up in a tracert because it's a layer 2 device (a switch) and simply forwards (switches) traffic from one switch port to another based on the layer 2 address of the …

A layer 2 switch is still a layer 2 switch even if it doesn't do VLANs and QOS. A layer 2 switch will pass traffic from port 1 to port 2 without repeating it to every other port.

Virtual LANs and IP subnets provide independent Layer 2 and Layer 3 constructs that map to one another and this correspondence is useful during the network design process. The IP address …

802.11 Protocol The IEEE 802 standards committee defines two separate layers, the Logical Link Control (LLC) and media access control, for the Data-Link layer of the OSI model. The IEEE …

It is not about doing it in hardware/software. It is about which layer is being handled and what protocols. A bridge generally works at L2 and converts (bridges) between disparate protocols. …

Multicast is a layer 3 feature of IPv4 & IPv6. To use anycast you advertise the same network in multiple spots of the Internet, and rely on shortest-path calculations to funnel clients to your …

The only real problem with doing multi-layered NATing is that it makes your network topology confusing. If you use multiple layers of NAT then you throw out the symmetric routing between …

Navigate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Link-Layer Topology Discovery. Double-click the Turn On Mapper I/O (LLTDIO) Driver policy. Select Enabled, and …

A 'multi-layer switch' can be thought of as a switch that contains a router which, unlike traditional routers, routes packets from VLAN to VLAN instead of from one physical interface to another …

I'm running wireshark and inspecting the TCP packets arriving at the NFS server. Wireshark is showing a packet size max 32626 during an extended write operation (client->server), …