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Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Dec 16 05:37:51 2015

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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:37:38 +0900
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Dave Taht wrote:

> To be more clear I wanted to detect if there was more than one
> bridge on the network, where the bridge being a PITA was a wired/wireless
> bridge.

Listen to spanning tree protocol.

							Masataka Ohta

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