RFC 2072:Router Renumbering Guide
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... performance bridges, which make their main forwarding decisions based on Layer 2 (MAC) address information. Even so, they rarely ...
... Layer 3 (IP) address structure. Pure Layer 2 switching has a "flat" address space that will need to be renumbered ...
... IP subnets. Increasingly, internetworking products are not purely Layer 2 or Layer 3 devices. A workgroup switch ...
... router function, so the numbering plan must support both flat Layer 2 and hierarchical Layer 3 addresses ...



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