Re: Bridging

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 21 May 1997 11:26:49 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chad Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 1997, Damien T. wrote:
>
> > But who does this? And why? I just don't get bridging over ISDN or other
> > slower-than-wire speeds. Feedback on this topic would be appreciated.
>
> I'd say 99% of the time someone will bridge rather than route simply
> because they don't want to purchase the equipment to route their traffic
> or they don't know how.

I think its more like they will bridge to support legacy hardware that
creates packets that cannot be routed.

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