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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER 
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
getting 10 fujitsu futros for self hosting purposes (they can fit precisely 1 sff expansion card so i gotta go for quantity. ya know ones the router with a 4 port nic card another is the storage server with a sata expansion card and so on)
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
i know i know strictly speaking you only need 2 ethernet slots inside your router but like i dont want to bottleneck everything through an unnecessary switch. this lets me get 1gbps between any 2 systems instead of only half that
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
actually im not sure thats true come to think of it. i think ip is smart enough to route between 2 devices directly over the switch and the router only provides the required routing information (mac addresses and such)
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@coolbean switch doesn't use ip but yes, it learns the mac address itself and pcs should adress it to the mac once they got that from delivering one packet to the ip iirc
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks bweh what layer 2 protocol do they use? llc?
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@coolbean wdym? It's just a broadcast for the first packet and then the mac is returned as part of the ethernet frame which the switch can read from my recollection
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks i just looked it up and internally iee802 (the standard that includes ethernet as well as wifi) does indeed use LLC for this part i feel so fucking smart rn
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@coolbean don't remember that name tbh. Also wikipedia doesn't explain how it works at all smh
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks look the puzzle piece fits at the very least. its the ieee802-stack protocol between mac and osi layer 3
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@coolbean i mena yeah. It says thatcs what it's used for, i'm just annoyed there's no description on how
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MISSIFLIPPI TRUTHER
coolbean@brain.worm.pink
@snacks honestly knowing wikipedia, that could very well be a good thing. its better than going too in depth packet by packet
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@coolbean depends on your hardware . ideally , you want a chip that can do linerate routing, access lists and switching
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