I love that you can plug a switch into itself that essentially causes a data short circuit of the switch talking to itself without realising it.
Switches are kind of stupid from a hardware perspective. A basic switch just has a lookup table that has all the connected devices and if it can’t find the destination address in the switch sends it out on all ports. There are protocols to handle this but they add overhead and are only available on higher end devices.
You can imagine what kind of chaos this could cause
I’m still puzzled though. Is switch initiative the ARP request? I though that since nothing (that can communicate) is connected to it except itself, it would be just quiet.
The packets: “I want to get off Mr Bones’ wild ride”
Would the switch do anything here? Wouldn’t there need to be something else plugged in? Like a laptop or pc?
Ah broadcast storms. The best kind of storms.
you (yes, you in particular) are the reason why STP was invented.
I would normally suggest that this is more “networking porn”, but its just way too fetishistic for regular consumption. you animal!
