Voytek Eymont wrote:
On Mon, December 11, 2006 11:21 am, Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote:
Finally changed over to Layer2 1.5 meg
blah blah blah. And am having problems with my setup.
Scott, dumb question:
I thought about this.
what's the advantage of having a 'Layer2' connection over the usual
'userid/password/login' connection ?
Better throughput than Layer3, in general. Devices on Layer2 work
less as hard than
devices on Layer3. Layer3 assembles data before send and dis-assembles
at receive.
Layer2 does not. So, less latency.
Layer3 can segment networks to avoid data broadcasting across all
segments, e.g. ARP and DHCP.
Layer3 can route as it has got additional info. Layer2 can't.
So, not a dumb question after all, I think.
O Plameras
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