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Explaining Network
Bridges
Published: 1-Dec-2000
A network bridge is a device that lets two networks talk
to each other. These networks might be the same type of network, like
two ethernet networks, or different networks, like an ethernet network and
HomePNA network.
This is an example of an
Ethernet Network bridged to a HomePNA Phone Line network. The device
in the middle, the bridge, lets computers in the HomePNA network
to talk to computers and devices in the Ethernet network - and the
other way too. The computers in the HomePNA network could even use
an internet connection that was on the Ethernet Network (like a cable
modem router)
When your networks are bridged,
they act just like one big network. There are rarely sharing
restrictions like there are in routed or NAT'ed solutions.
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