[ih] "The First Router" on Jeopardy

[Jorge Amodio]

Bridge vs repeater ...

Repeater, copies all "packets" from one segment to another.

Bridge, copies all "packets" but no broadcast ones from one segment to
another.

My .02
-J


On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:26 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 11/23/2021 6:59 AM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> > That said, I'll acknowledge that a bridge, which simply flooded the
> > channels with whatever came in,
>
>
> What you've described is a repeater.
>
> A bridge is a repeater that learns where hosts are and becomes selective
> about the packets it forwards.  (I assume Radia is on this list.)
>
> A repeater does not deal with loops.  A bridge does.
>
> d/
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