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How cable connects to server if routers and switches are virtualized
Looking here for an example, I see:
Spine Device Interface Summary
As previously stated, the validated design includes up to 4 spine devices and up to 96 leaf devices that are interconnected by ...
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If physical switches are necessary in a SDN
Exploring how to implement a Software Defined Network and here it explains that an SDN switch is only dealing with the data layer. But then:
Do We Need Special SDN Switches for SDN Networking?
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Virtual Circuit Identifier
In a Virtual Circuit Network how does a packet gets a VCI ? I read in Data Communication and Networking book by B.A.Forouzan that a packet with a VCI comes at a switch but there is no mention on how ...
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What does a switch have to do?
I'm thinking of something that would need to emulate an ethernet switch.
We have a proprietary bus connecting a central unit with several "slave units", and I would like to move ethernet packets over ...
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Difference between Linux Bridge and Open vSwitch [closed]
What are the most significant differences between how a Linux bridge and an Open vSwitch work?
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Why does a switch have more VTY lines than a router?
During my years working with Cisco equipment I realised that switches have more VTY lines (16) as compared to routers which have 5 VTY lines considering that the equipment that we work with (c2960 ...
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