Timeline for Is a "LAN" a layer 2 or a layer 3 concept, in TCP/IP?
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| Jan 7, 2021 at 15:51 | answer | added | Kind Contributor | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 21:57 | answer | added | Simon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 21:20 | comment | added | Gaius | It's a matter of terminology. A layer 3 VLAN is a subnet, a layer 2 subnet is a VLAN. In most practical networks there is a 1:1 correlation anyway. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 18:42 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 17:23 | answer | added | Sagar Uragonda | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 20:45 | comment | added | Maurizio Carcassona | Thanks a lot, I thought about the physical POV, but couldn't associate it with purely theoretical-scheme exercises - I suppose those did actually infer different LANs being connected by a router, but I couldn't figure out what actually makes a LAN differentiable from another. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 20:39 | vote | accept | Maurizio Carcassona | ||
| Jun 21, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | Usually a LAN is defined by physical boundaries... a LAN is contained within a house, building or campus by normal definitions. Both Layer2 or Layer3 are very common in LANs. | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 20:02 | answer | added | Ron Maupin♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 21, 2019 at 19:47 | answer | added | Zac67♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jun 21, 2019 at 19:14 | history | asked | Maurizio Carcassona | CC BY-SA 4.0 |