Chapter 6Switching

When people at Cisco discuss switching in regard to the Cisco exam objectives, they're talking about layer 2 switching unless they say otherwise. Layer 2 switching is the process of using the hardware address of devices on a LAN to segment a network. Since you've got the basic idea of how that works nailed down by now, we're going to dive deeper into the particulars of layer 2 switching to ensure that your concept of ...

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