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Switching affected by routing uplink
hi, I have a situation that I can not make sense out of. Netgear 10G switch is connected to a Cisco L3 Linksys switch at 1Gbps speed, there is only one VLAN configured on Netgear, two hosts are connected to Netgear switch, default gateway IP of the VLAN is on Cisco L3 linksys switch, Netgear learned MAC addresses of both hosts fine, both hosts can ping each other fine, however the connection speed between the two hosts is less than 1Gbps even host OS (Ubuntu) says the link speed is 10G, even weird thing is when I disconnect the link between Linksys and Netgear, connectivity between the two hosts would lost, it seems that even the two hosts are connected to Netgear in the same VLAN, the IP connectivity between the hosts is still routed via Linksys L3 switch. I have limited networking knowledge, but the above behavior does not make sense to me at all, what could be the reason behand this behavior?