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MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 8 months agoA router of industrial scale which i see at work has its ports to be l3 ports by default. They don’t down the network as the router rejects config where two ports are given the same subnet… at least the ones i operate at work.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s true, the default for layer 3 switches is to have its port set as routable.
The original joke really kinda falls flat with modern tech, but it’s still funny to think about handing a switch to someone with zero knowledge and then watch as they accidentally lock up the environment.