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Originally Posted by OldGeezer
The packets would just go through the switch, not to the router.
You can tell that by which lights are flashing!
Roughly speaking the switch is aware of what is hanging off each port (by looking at the "source" MAC address in the packets that come into it). The destination of a packet coming into one port is looked up and the packet is directed to the matching port.
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Ahh - but dosn't that depend on what OSI layer the switch is capable of? Hence why I thought the router might be involved somehow to re-route the packets...