dear friends,
I really don’t know what is difference between bridging Ethernets and making them master slave, in both i can communicate with all ports but what is the differences? and when should i use bridging and when Master slave?
thx
According to what I’ve read using master/slave configuration uses the switching chip for the ports instead of switching decisions being made by the CPU. You get less CPU load that way. Each master/slave group also acts as a separate switch.
This is my understanding anyways. I could be incorrect.
It’s correct.
On the other hand, bridging allows you to join different types of HW interfaces, e.g. an ethernet interface (even a switch master) and a wireless interface.
And you can define filter rules (also possible on some switch chips like in the CRS series) and use stp/rstp as a switching protocol.
It is actually features vs. speed…
thx alot…