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The switch may also have layer-3 functionality, otherwise, at layer-2, traffic will be pass through the switch to the printer.
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The MAC address of the source and destination machines are sent in each Ethernet packet and a layer-2 switch uses this to determine where it should send the incoming packet.
Site Home Steven Sinofsky 2011
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The virtual switch in Hyper-V is a "layer-2 switch," which means that it switches (i.e. determines the route a certain Ethernet packet takes) using the MAC addresses that uniquely identify each (physical and virtual) network adapter card.
Site Home Steven Sinofsky 2011
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Our unique real-time transactional services platform leverages a global private layer-2 MPLS/VPLS network to offer a fast, secure, reliable and cost-effective alternative to the public Internet backbone.
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AT-8516F layer-2 Fast Ethernet switches, AT-AR750S firewall and wide area network (WAN) router, AT-2701FX fiber Network Interface Card (NIC), and AT-AR440S asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) router.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Normally, if you have two or three data centers, for example, each exists as a layer-2 island with its own set of VLANs, spanning-tree, and so forth.
Techworld.com News 2010
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Normally, if you have two or three data centers, for example, each exists as a layer-2 island with its own set of VLANs, spanning-tree, and so forth.
Techworld.com News 2010
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Our unique real-time transactional services platform leverages a global private layer-2 MPLS/VPLS network to offer a fast, secure, reliable and cost-effective alternative to the public Internet backbone.
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Normally, if you have two or three data centers, for example, each exists as a layer-2 island with its own set of VLANs, spanning-tree, and so forth.
Latest from Computerworld Paul Venezia 2010
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Normally, if you have two or three data centers, for example, each exists as a layer-2 island with its own set of VLANs, spanning-tree, and so forth.
Latest from Computerworld Paul Venezia 2010
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