On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .. > > this is how i understand the brctl utility... if i could make it work on > > 2 100Mbps NIC, the logical bandwidth it can accomodate is 2x the > > bandwidth.. tama ba ang pagkakaintindi ko? > > a bridge forwards all ethernet frames on one interface to all its other > interfaces. > > in other words, A BRIDGE IS A SWITCH.
duh...you mean a repeater -- forwards all ethernet frames... as for a bridge -- it forwards only those that are for that segment... after it learns that the MAC address it is serving is in that segment. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
