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| developed by Digital in the early 1980s |
| IEEE 802.1 standard |
| transparent bridges are transparent to network hosts; they learn the network topology by analyzing the source addresses of incoming frames from all attached networks |
| transparent bridge builds a table (host address, bridge port); the table is called filtering data base; the table is used for traffic forwarding |
| transparent bridge reduces the traffic by isolating intra-segment traffic |