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My question involves the delays involved with changing which physical socket your ethernet cable is connected to.
I am aware that if you are connected to a router on a network and then change which physical socket on that router you are using you will gain very small additional delays initially. However I am curious as to what causes these delays. I originally thought it was to do with the infromation stored in the routing table and whether that was allocated to a specific socket on the router or not. Although, if your IP address is the same then I don't understand why there would be delays because I would of assumed that any information within the router was linked to an IP address rather than a physical socket.
1Although your external IP address is the same regardless of socket (i.e. the Internet doesn't care whether you're in Socket 1 or Socket 2) internally the signals transmitted are not the same. This assumes that the router routs - different physical sockets may have different information passing through. The small delay you may get may be due to the internal processing and redirecting of the original signal to the new socket. – Doktoro Reichard – 2013-10-28T22:56:14.023
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-10-28T23:05:56.710