About Bridging
About Bridging
The AsantéBridge 1012 has combined the world of a transparent learning bridge with the intelligence of the AsantéHub 1012.This section gives you a brief introduction to bridging and how it is implemented by your new AsantéBridge.
The purpose of any bridge is to provide a link between two dis- crete segments of a single network, enabling each segment to function as an independent network, except when packets must be sent from one segment to the other.
For example, let’s assume that we are starting with a simple Ether- net network comprising several AsantéHubs and various network devices (PC, Macintoshes, and printers):
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Figure 2-1 A simple Ethernet network
In this net, we are using just three hubs configured on a thick Ethernet backbone. Expanding the net is relatively easy: we just add more hubs on the backbone.
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