[186381] in North American Network Operators' Group
reliably detecting the presence of a bridge?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Taht)
Tue Dec 15 04:48:54 2015
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:48:50 +0100
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I am curious if there is some sort of igmp or other form of message
that would reliably detect if a switch had a bridge on it. How could
deviceA detect deviceC was a bridge in this case?
deviceA -> ethernet switch -> deviceB
ethernet switch -> deviceC with bridged wifi and ethern=
et
question came up in the context of:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/2015-December/002231.h=
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