On 15/12/2015 09:49, Dave Taht wrote: > I am curious if there is some sort of igmp or other form of message > that would reliably detect if a switch had a bridge on it. How could > deviceA and B detect deviceC was a bridge in this case? > > deviceA -> ethernet switch -> deviceB > ethernet switch -> deviceC -> with bridged wifi and > ethernet > > question came up in the context of: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/2015-December/002231.html
Most bridges are configured by default with STP, so sniff for BPDU's at each hop? Rich.
