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by darrin 253 days ago
The L1 path can't do any address matching and you can't overlap sources - like Ghostbusters, no crossing the streams. You can source port 1 to ports 2-4 (multicast, but static and unidirectional) and you can change a bidir connection between pairs of ports. The signal gets replicated regardless of what's in the frame. It wouldn't be practical to make it behave quite like an L2 switch.
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Apologies, my post was not precise enough, but I think I got it.

> It wouldn't be practical to make it behave quite like an L2 switch.

What are typical configuration? If you’re allowed to talk about it.