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Network Switch
I thought that a switch was supposed to find what device is on each port and then only send relevant messages to that port.
Monitoring the flashing leds on the S8000 it doesn't look like it is doing that.
Since I am using port aggregation, though, it is very iportant that it does or it is saturating all the ports when it shouldn't be.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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> I thought that a switch was supposed to [...]
That's the idea.
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
Based on a description as detailed as "it doesn't look like it is
doing that"? Not I.Broadcast messages (DHCP requests, Wake-on-LAN, and so on) always go
everyplace.If I wanted to figure out what was happening in such a situation,
then I might be looking for a way to put a sniffer like, say, Wireshark,
onto a port of interest. Failing that, I might construct a
smaller/simpler model network, where I had a better idea of all the
expected traffic, and see if it behaves differently/better.Otherwise, I might try asking in a more appropriate forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/bd-p/en-home-nighthawk-pro-gaming-switches