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Trick: Ethernet Bridges under Linux |
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Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
Bridging is the process of transparently connecting two networks segments together, so that packets can pass between the two as if they were a single logical network. Bridging is performed on the data link layer; hence it is independent of the network protocol being used - it doesn't matter if you use IP, Appletalk, Netware or any other protocol, as the bridge operates upon the raw ethernet packets.
Typically, in a non-bridged situation, a computer with two network cards would be connected to a separate network on each; while the computer itself may or may not route packets between the two, in the IP realm, each network interface would have a different address and different network number.
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