December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 29m
English
Cisco devices fall into three main categories: bridges and switches, routers, and access servers. We discuss bridges and switches first.
A bridge is a network device that operates at the data link layer. A bridge connects multiple data link layer network segments into a single logical network segment. There are many different types of bridges:
Transparent or learning
Encapsulation
Translational
Source-route
Source-route translational
Although the Cisco IOS implements each of these types of bridging, we discuss only the first three types of bridging in this book. Source-route and source-route translational bridging are used in Token Ring environments.
Bridging allows for physical and logical separation ...
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