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Router is layer 2 or layer 3 device?

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Question added by abdur rasheed , Network Administrator , Warid Telecom (Al-Khalej Telecom)
Date Posted: 2013/07/18
WASEEM AWAN
by WASEEM AWAN , Senior IT Support Engineer , Al Fahad Communication & Networking Systems LLC

No! Router is Layer3 device because it is Network layer3.

Switch and bridges are layer2 devices. but some switches like Layer3 is also network layer3 because layer3 switches is capable to route your data

Ibrahim Sheriff
by Ibrahim Sheriff , IT Service Desk , ACICO Group

Layer3 device

Certainly works at the network layer third layer

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