arch0nmyc0n
December 23rd, 2003, 05:00 PM
I'm not a heavy networking guy and I see this "bridge connections" in WinXP... just wondering what it means/does?
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Gollo
December 23rd, 2003, 05:17 PM
I'm not a heavy networking guy and I see this "bridge connections" in WinXP... just wondering what it means/does?
It connects two ethernet segments and connects them (bridges them). This allows to different subnets to communicate to each other.
It connects two ethernet segments and connects them (bridges them). This allows to different subnets to communicate to each other.
arch0nmyc0n
December 23rd, 2003, 06:27 PM
It connects two ethernet segments and connects them (bridges them). This allows to different subnets to communicate to each other.
Other than mear ability to communicate, what would other benefits of said bridge be? What would be a situation that would require a bridge be made?
Other than mear ability to communicate, what would other benefits of said bridge be? What would be a situation that would require a bridge be made?
NooNoo
December 23rd, 2003, 07:10 PM
xp was merrily bridging my firewire to my wireless... I killed the bridge, the firewire I use for my dv cam... fat lot of subnets it would find on that!
3D Prophet III
December 24th, 2003, 12:49 AM
I'm not a heavy networking guy and I see this "bridge connections" in WinXP... just wondering what it means/does?
In other words you would be turning your Windows XP system into a Network Bridge if you had two NICs installed. Your computer would store the MAC addresses of every computer that was on each LAN segment and associate their NetBIOS names to their MAC address. Then your computer would know which LAN segment to forward the broadcast to or where to block it from going between two serperate peer 2 peer LANs. As long as no two machines are using the same host name/computer name, everybody should be able to communicate with each other. As long as there aren't any software firewalls in place or you have them configured properly. That's Layer 2 of the OSI, no?
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In other words you would be turning your Windows XP system into a Network Bridge if you had two NICs installed. Your computer would store the MAC addresses of every computer that was on each LAN segment and associate their NetBIOS names to their MAC address. Then your computer would know which LAN segment to forward the broadcast to or where to block it from going between two serperate peer 2 peer LANs. As long as no two machines are using the same host name/computer name, everybody should be able to communicate with each other. As long as there aren't any software firewalls in place or you have them configured properly. That's Layer 2 of the OSI, no?
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