Joining LANs - Bridges

04-Apr-00


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Joining LANs - Bridges

Connecting LANs

Two types of Bridges

Sample topology

Spanning Tree Bridge Behavior

Learning the topology

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Creating a Spanning Tree

Bridge Protocol

Sample topology with root ports and designated bridge ports identified

Examples

One virtual LAN

Forwarding behavior

An abstraction of the spanning tree

Better diagram

Use of the diagram

Larger Example

Spanning tree for larger example

Examples

Another example

One more example

Maximum path length between nodes

Example:

Source Routing Bridges

Bridges summary

Author: Lillian N. Cassel

Email: cassel@acm.org

Home Page: http://lcassel.csc.villanova.edu

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