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.


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