The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

My dilemma...<P>I have a router here at home and that's what I use to share internet access among all of the computers. I just configure the router, plug the DSL ...

In the living room, the primary router is connected to the modem. There are also several devices wired into that router. In the back of the house, I have a switch which is hardwired to the primary ...

In the computer networking world, the three most ubiquitous pieces of equipment are modems, routers, and switches. These are used everywhere from the datacenter hosting Google to the internet ...

Five years later, I realized that I'd outgrown that setup, and needed to expand things. I didn't want to spend too much at ...

It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. If Arrcus, which dropped out of stealth mode ...

Part of that is slow adoption on client devices, which typically have 2x2 antenna configurations at most and don't support Wi ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...