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How do layer 2 switches route based on MAC when daisy-chained?

Trying to think about this from a hardware design perspective, if I had to design an FPGA or a uC or something to manage a single port being the gateway port and one or more switched ports for routing,...
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Why does the Layer 3 switch drop the ping packet?

I am trying to ping from PC2 (not PC1, there's typo in the picture) to the router's int g0/0, but the packet is dropped at the L3 switch which is along the path. I have tried setting a default static ...
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How are packets ( received from the server ) sent to the host from the gateway ( which is present in the host network )?

If the host is receiving packets from a server, these packets have a destination IP address of the host and it is first received by the gateway present in the host network. Now the gateway checks the ...
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Advertise routes in simple switched network

I'm trying to build a fairly simple network. I've got a few devices acting as the network core, which are basically all connected to each other by a simple Ethernet switch. Each of these devices (I ...
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How can we identify layer two device in a network or what are those device effects on a frame

This is sample of a traceroute to google.com: TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 216.58.194.46 [google.com] Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name 1 0 0 0 ...
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HP 1910 disable layer 3 mode

Is there a way i can make HP 1910 works in layer 2 mode. I check the web interface but not seeing anything Also i enable the cli and went to system view but not seeing any thing related no ip routing ...
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Network topology suggestions?

Looking for guidance on network topology changes. Currently our network has 2 different stacks of switches running in layer 2. These switches then connect to a stack of layer 3 switches to do internal ...
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'interface vlanX' or 'interface loopbackX'

VLANs are a layer 2 concept. We can all agree on that but why, then, do we use the 'interface vlanX' to allow routing on a switch. If we want to setup a default gateway for VLAN X on a Layer 3 switch ...
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Routing of 2 Gateways via a Layer 2 Switch

Please refer to the network diagram below, it is a very simplified version of an actual network installation. The Router has 3 Vlans, OSPF has been configured and all the 3 vlans have been added to ...
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