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>Actually, AFAIK the difference between a bridge and a repeater is just
>that a repeater is doing an analog repeat of the signal, not receiving
>it digitally and retransmitting it.   Whether the bridge does
>spanning-tree, isolation, or cut-through is depends on its feature
>set.   A device doesn't have to do any of these things to qualify as
>being a bridge - it just has to receive packets digitally and
>retransmit them digitally between two network segments.

One crucial difference between a bridge and a repeater is that a bridge
breaks the segments into seperate collision domains, whereas a repeater
doesn't.

-Dave


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