Re: Re (2): Linux hub

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Thanks for the informative discussion!


On Sep 5, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> Switches are smart devices, ... They do not use out-of-band  
> information to make
> switching decisions.

Does Spanning Tree Protocol and/or V-lan tagging count as "out-of-band  
information"?

Rick