ROUTERS

HENNO

Can ROUTERS segment?

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sprkymrk

Yes.

Danman32

You have to define, segment what?
Routers segment networks, otherwise known as broadcast domains.
Switches on the other hand, segment collision domains but not broadcast domains.

Routers also segment collision domains, but only because a collision domain can only belong to one network/broadcast domain.

mgmguy1

OSI LAYERS

TRANSPORT = SEGMENTS

NETWORK = DATAGRAMS & PACKETS

DATA LINK = FRAMES

PHYSICAL - BITS

Danman32

Different meaning of segment. You can segment a physucal LAN, you can segment a network, etc.

Like I said, segment what?

netcom2000

I think he must mean segmenting a network, if discussing routers.

ROUTERS = Network layer 3 of the OSI model.

A router segments a network by a subnetting scheme, routers also provide default gateways to guide packets through to the next network or subnet, like when you connect to the Internet from a private network, the default gateway of the router will send the packets to the next network i.e the Internet.

agustinchernitsky

Physical segment or logical segment... another one