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Foil 4 Bridging and Switching Basics (1)

From Introduction to Network Security Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
1 Bridges and switches divide networks into self-contained units; minimizing traffic
2 Kinds of bridging
  • Transparent bridging - found in Ethernet environment
  • Source-route bridging - found in Token Ring environment
  • Translational bridging - translation between Ethernet and Token Ring media
  • Source-Route Transparent bridging - combines transparent and source-route bridging
3 Bridges can filter frames based on: source, destination, upper-level protocols
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