January 22, 2010

Tips on network, routers, and switches

1. Plan your network design carefully.

2. Use network bridge in network to reduce collisions within broadcast domains and to increase the number of collision domains in your network.

3. Using hubs can contribute to traffic congestion.

4. Routers break up collision domains as well as broadcast domains.

5. Although bridges/switches are used to segment networks, they WILL NOT isolate broadcast or multicast domains.

6. Even though you have a switched network, you still need a router to provide your inter-VLAN communication or internetworking.