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Posted by vicky on July 4, 2008, 2:00 am
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> > As u mentioned here above in u'r point that
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 if the bridge is "tunneling=
," or bridging, an
> > FDDI
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0> frame from one FDDI LAN to=
another FDDI LAN,
> > for example, and there
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0> are some Ethernet segments=
between the two FDDI
> > LANs, then the VLAN
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0> tag can carry that FDDI "s=
ource routing"
> > information. It's a way of
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0> allowing frames from diffe=
rent MACs to be
> > bridged, without losing
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0> extra header information a=
vailable in the non-
> > Ethernet LANs.
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> > so for doing that function is a brigde is capable of doing routing (is
> > bridge is source routed bridge) or it done at normally also.
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> Tunneling is *not* routing. The point made above is that an Ethernet
> bridge can be used to tunnel source-route information (including CFI
> information) between two source-route-capable LANs (e.g., Token Ring or
> FDDI) across a non-source-route-capable Ethernet backbone. The Ethernet
> bridge is not performing any source-route function, only passing along
> the information.
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> > One more thing is about that type of tunneling is it done
> > automatically or a programmer has also play a role for this , and if a
> > programmer has a role than also tell me some about of this role.
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> The tunneling function must be designed into the bridge. It can be
> performed either in hardware or software.
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can u please highligted the following with detail....................
The tunneling function must be designed into the
bridge. It can be
performed either in hardware or software.
Thanks
regards
Vikrant Pandey
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