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Foil 15 Source Route Transparent Bridging

From Introduction to Network Security Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
Designed by IBM in 1990
Allows to inter-operate source route bridges and transparent bridges on the same network
Routing Information Indicator Bit is used to distinguish transparent bridging frames and source route bridging frames
SRT bridging permits the coexistence of two incompatible environments (Ethernet and Token Ring)
Spanning Tree Algorithm and Source Routing Path are used

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