<![CDATA[<p>What is a switch?</p><p><span id="bodyfont" style="font-family:Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">A switch is a smarter version of a hub.<span> </span>Instead of transmitting all signals on all interfaces (a tactic which, while simple, can cause interference and security issues) a switch attempts to ‘learn’ which interface a given IP is on.<span> </span>That way the switch can avoid having to send lots of redundant traffic.<span> </span>Switches do not have their own DHCP servers built in and will require an external DHCP server (for instance Rose-Hulman’s DHCP server) to grant users IP addresses.</font></p>
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