[HECnet] DECnet et al

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What is the difference between a bridge and a switch? I don't want to get into a discussion about layer 2 and layer 3 swutching but afaik a bridge is a two port layer 2 switch. 
A bridge keeps the traffic that it forwards to a minimum. Which is the difference with a repeater. 
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Onderwerp: RE: [HECnet] DECnet et al
Verzonden: 17 juli 2011 20:24

A bridge (hw) maintains a list of mac addresses it sees at each port.

  FWIW, that's a "switch" at least in the common usage of the word over
here.

Bob


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