Transparent bridges are devices which connects more than one network segments
with other bridges to make all
routing decisions. A transparent bridge is essentially used to learn the
MAC addresses of all nodes
and their associated port, to
filter incoming frames whose destination MAC addresses are located on the
same incoming port, and to forward incoming frames to the destination MAC
through their associated port@.
There are two types of Transparent Bridge Modes:
Store-and-Forward: Stores the entire frame and verifies
the CRC before forwarding the frame. If a CRC error
is detected, the frame is discarded.
IETF Bridge Working Group Charter Describes the IETF Bridge working group and includes contact and mailing list information and links to Request for Comments documents.
Monitoring Transparent Bridging You can set a statistics baseline for a bridge group (using the baseline bridge command) or for a bridge interface (using the baseline bridge interface command).
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