Date   : Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:14:24 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

"Mark Usher" wrote:
> > A bridge is specifically defined as a same-network to same-network
> > connection,
> By whom? Citation?
 
AUN Manager's Guide p3 onwards
Tannenbaum, would need to dig in the basement to check the title
and page number. Something like "comparitive networking
technologies"
Stallings, Data And Computer Communications, p774, p781.
 
Also, English as she is spoke. A bridge connects two self-similar
facilites. You travel along a road over a bridge to another road.
Changing mode from railway to bus requires a connection with more
capability that a bridge.
 
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