TL-SG108S switch acting like a hub
Hello,
I purchased a TL-SG108S switch.
There I connect port 1 to the router and ports 2 and 3 to two computers. Everything seems to work, but when I do a traceroute from one computer to the other one, I see the packets are being sent to the router before them reaches the other computer. I'm not an expert in networking, but is this how a switch should work? Should not be the packets sent directly to the other computer?
$ traceroute -M icmp 192.168.1.100
traceroute to 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100), 64 hops max
1 192.168.1.1 2,051ms 5,051ms 1,694ms
2 192.168.1.100 3,409ms 2,815ms 1,908ms
I'd want direct communication between this two computers, because I have a bottleneck in the communications with the router due to a PLC. Is this possible with this model?