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DES-3326S Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

Impact of Layer 3 Switching.

The IP routing operational mode of the DES-3326S Layer 3 switch can accomplish the following:

Building a forwarding table, and exchanging information with its peers using routing protocols.

Receiving packets and forwarding them to the correct interface based upon their destination address

With layer 3 switching, there is no performance penalty to introducing a routing hop and creating an additional segment of the network.

Understanding and Troubleshooting the Spanning Tree Protocol

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