ok im trying to learn more about routers and switches and ect. where should i look to learn alot...?
Wikipedia, about routing and stuff, read RFC's, books, internets..
also switches are really nothing special, well a little more logic instead of hubs, but also not much to learn about..
>>switches are really nothing special<<
right, if you are talking about unmanaged Switches. But Check out some manuals of 3Com Enterprise-Series switches to see what you can do with an managed switch. Layer3 Routing, VLANS, Link Aggregation, Spanning Tree, etc
you can download manuals and configuration examples from 3Com website. I´ve learned much from this papers