I agree with you.... transparent bridges are just that, transparent. Any retransmittal of corrupt or lost frames would need to be done by the end station.... AFAIK, (with ethernet) even if a device receives a corrupt frame, at layer 2, it simply discards it.... it doesn't "request retransmittal" as that is left to higher protocols to correct.
Mike W. "Kaminski, Shawn G" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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=43465&t=43459 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
