I've always known routers to "route" and bridges to "learn, filter, forward, and flood". A co-worker said that if a router is configured with transparent bridging, it can re-transmit a frame. He said that he heard this somewhere. I'm pretty sure he's wrong because this just isn't something that a router/bridge is meant to do. I also searched CCO but came up empty-handed.
For example, say you have two segments connected to a router; one segment off of e0 and one segment off of e1. If a host on the e0 segment sends a frame to a host on the e1 segment and a collision occurs on the e1 segment before reaching the destination host, then I believe that the host on e0 is responsible for re-transmitting the frame, not the router/bridge. Has anyone heard of a router configured with transparent bridging re-transmitting frames? I just can't see how this could happen. However, I've seen stranger things happen, so I just wanted to get the opinions of others on this group. Shawn K. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=43459&t=43459 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
