Re: Stateful Ethernet Bridging and it's effect on overall Internet topology.

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Taylor
I agree, however there are some implementations of this type of bridging that 'routing' would not be a good substitute for. Say mangling traffic going outbound for compression purposes (A La Redline (Yes I know redline does proxying and not bridging)). I guess my best question would be, is th

Stateful Ethernet Bridging and it's effect on overall Internet topology.

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Taylor
I have a question and would like all of your opinions on this matter, as I research heavily into stateful ethernet bridging, packet mangling and their advantages and disadvantages to local and wide area network topologies. Deployed in large volumes, what negative effects, if any, would ethernet