Is likely to have some point you have broken the local employees of a large network into a pile of small Since the user’s response would be reduced to a slow crawl as the network grows and growth and all the growth, your LAN traffic congestion Korea has reached epic proportion. The answer is to break up a really big network into several small things
The so-called network segmentation.
You make use of equipment such as routers, switches and bridges. Figure 1.1 shows the net Korea’s job was split switch, so that each network segment to connect to the switch
It is now a separate collision domain. However, It should be noted that the fact that the network is still a Broadcast domain.

Keep in mind that the hub used in Figure 1.1 just extended the one collision domain from the switch port. Here¡¯s a list of some of the things that commonly cause LAN traffic congestion
- Too many hosts in a broadcast domain
- Broadcast storms
- Multicasting
- Low bandwidth
- Adding hubs for connectivity to the network
- A bunch of ARP or IPX traffic (IPX is a Novell protocol that is like IP but really, really
chatty. Typically, it is not used in today¡¯s networks.
Now, routers are used to connect together and route network packets from one network
Job to another. Cisco became the de facto standard of routers because of its high-quality
Router products, great selection, excellent service. Routers, by default, to break up a wide range of Actor domain ¡ ª settings of all network equipment sector, to hear all the radio issued
This part. Figure 1.2 shows a small network routers, created the Internet and
Rest of the broadcast domain.
The network in Figure 1.2 shows that each host is connected to its own collision domain,
And routers have been set up two radio domain. And Don ¡ ¯ forget the router to provide
Connected to the wide area network services, as well as! Routers use a number of so-called serial interface WAN connections, specifically, V.35 physical interface of the Cisco routers.
Breaking up a broadcast domain is important because when a host or server sends a net
work broadcast, every device on the network must read and process that broadcast¡ªunle
you¡¯ve got a router. When the router¡¯s interface receives this broadcast, it can respond by
cally saying, ¡ Thanks, but no thanks,¡± and discard the broadcast without forwarding it
to other networks. Even though routers are known for breaking up broadcast domains by
default, it¡¯s important to remember that they break up collision domains as well
There are two advantages of using routers in your network:
- They don¡’t forward broadcasts by default
- They can filter the network based on layer 3 (Network layer) informa
IP address).
Four router functions in your network can be listed as follows:
- Packet switching
- Packet filtering
- Internetwork communication
- Path selection
Remember that routers are really switches; they¡¯re actually what we call layer 3 switches
(we’ll talk about layers later in this chapter). Unlike layer 2 switches, which forward or filter
frames, routers (layer 3 switches) use logical addressing and provide what is called packet
switching. Routers can also provide packet filtering by using access lists, and when routers
connect two or more networks together and use logical addressing (IP or IPv6), this is called an internetwork. Last, routers use a routing table (map of the internetwork) to make path
selections and to forward packets to remote networks.
Conversely, switches aren¡¯t used to create internetworks (they do not break up broadcast
domains by default); they¡¯re employed to add functionality to a network LAN. The main
purpose of a switch is to make a LAN work better¡ªto optimize its performance¡ªprovidin
more bandwidth for the LAN¡¯s users. And switches don¡¯t forward packets to other network
as routers do. Instead, they only ¡°switch¡± frames from one port to another within th
switched network.
By default, switches break up collision domains. This is an Ethernet term used to describe
a network scenario wherein one particular device sends a packet on a network segment, forc-
ing every other device on that same segment to pay attention to it. At the same time, a different
device tries to transmit, leading to a collision, after which both devices must retransmit, one
at a time. Not very efficient! This situation is typically found in a hub environment where each
host segment connects to a hub that represents only one collision domain and only one broad-
cast domain. By contrast, each and every port on a switch represents its own collision domain.