Re: OR/U's versus Pipeline 75

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 20 May 1997 18:28:57 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 20 May 1997, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> >> >bridging n y
> >> What? Who uses this?
> >
> >Me so I can see all my office traffic at my house.
>
> What? This makes no sense. How does 'bridging' allow you to see traffic at
> your office? the point of bridging is so that no unneeded traffic traverses
> the link.

The point of bridging is to connect 2 remote networks together and pass
packets based on mac layer address and it doesn't care about the protocol
of the packet.

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