Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:23 pm
No, you can add a bridge to make layer 2 connections between other interfaces. For example you can bridge ethernet ports together to work like a switch.
It does use CPU for this function though so it is better to use the interface's 'slave' function to create layer 2 connections if available on the RouterBoard (supported with the switch chip). If you slave ports together, they are using the switch hardware instead of CPU cycles.
Tom