Asante Technologies 1012 User Manual
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About Bridging
The transparent bridge shown here serves to isolate the two seg-
ments: Network traffic meant only for devices on segment A is lim-
ited to the backbone serving segment A. These packets are not
passed across the bridge. Traffic on segment B is also restricted to
that segment. Only packets originating on one segment that are
intended for devices on the other segment (A to B and B to A) are
passed across the bridge and carried by both backbones.
What traffic is actually passed across the bridge is largely config-
urable. The bridge can be left alone to “learn” what devices live on
each segment, or it can be manually set up to pass packets only to
certain addresses, or certain ranges of addresses can be arbitrarily
forwarded or blocked.