Subject: [rbridge] it's time to summarize things

From: Eric.Gray at marconi.com (Gray, Eric)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:00:29 -0500

Radia,
 
	Very well put.

--> Being an RBridge is really like being a router, but the
--> destination is a layer 2 address rather than an IP address.
--> 
--> Radia
--> 

--
Eric

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From: touch at ISI.EDU (Joe Touch)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:08:04 -0800

Routers do NOT propagate broadcasts at either L2 or L3.

So being an rbridge breaks broadcast, so ARP, DHCP, etc. won't work.

Joe

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From: riw at cisco.com (Russ White)
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:35:27 -0500

> So being an rbridge breaks broadcast, so ARP, DHCP, etc. won't work.

As long as a broadcast or multicast can be described as an L2 
destination an rbridge will understand, it doesn't break anything.

:-)

Russ

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