Thanks for the info! I really appreciate it! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of fooler Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:55 PM To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: Re: [plug] [BRIDGING 2 NICS - brctl utility] Importance: High
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelsey Hartigan Go" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:57 PM Subject: RE: [plug] [BRIDGING 2 NICS - brctl utility] > 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? bridging is for store-and-forward traffic and no bandwidth increase here.... your first move to increase your bandwidth is to force your nic from half-duplex to full-duplex in order to have times 2 of your speed (not applicable for 10 mbps nics)... next is either channel bonding 10/100 mbps nic or buy a single 1000/10000 mbps nic.. > > > > a bridge forwards all ethernet frames on one interface to all its other > > interfaces. a bridge forwards a frame (either ethernet 802.3, token-bus 802.4, token-ring 802.5 and others) that it received with the following rules: 1) if the destination mac adddress found on its mac address table, it will just simple forward on that network segment or inteface attached to it 2) if the destination mac addres is not found on its mac address table, it will forward to all network segments or interfaces that are attached to it (flooding) 3) destination mac address is either broadcast address or multicast address, it will forward to all network segments or interfaces that are attached to it also (flooding) > > in other words, A BRIDGE IS A SWITCH. although a bridge and a switch share most relevant attributes... several distinctions differentiate these technologies and these are: 1) switch have a higher port density and lower per-port cost than bridge 2) bridge store-and-forward traffic unlike with switch that have a cut-through switching feature which reduces latency and delays in the network 3) switch is more intelligent than bridge like virtual lan (vlan), port security, flooding controls, etc... the emergence of switches is a replacement technology for bridges... > duh...you mean a repeater -- forwards all ethernet frames... repeater works on layer 1 (physical layer) where repeater amplifies and regenerates signals between network segment and no store-and-forward of frames here... bridge is on layer 2 (data-link layer).. fooler. -- 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 -- 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
