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Foil 8 Transparent Bridging (2)

From Introduction to Network Security Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
without a bridge-to-bridge protocol bridging fails because of a bridging loop; in addition to connectivity problem, proliferation of broadcast messages in networks with loops creates broadcast storms (both bridges will forward broadcast frames endlessly, using all available network bandwidth). On the other hand "a loop" implies the existence of multiple paths improves topological flexibility
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