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Usually if you have a normal ethernet switch/WiFi your TCP packets end up going to everyone. Endpoints only self-choose to listen to stuff addressed to them.
by Tarang 13y ago
Usually if you have a normal ethernet switch/WiFi your TCP packets end up going to everyone.
Endpoints only self-choose to listen to stuff addressed to them.
- alexkus 13y agoThat's the major difference between hubs and switches. As a generalisation: hubs just push everything received from one port out to all ports. Switches are cleverer in that they only direct the right traffic (that may include broadcast traffic) to all ports. Of course, there are cheap 'switches' that are nothing more than hubs.