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Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge?
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:51 -0400
Why do you care if there's a bridge? Seems you care about higher latency, packet loss, lower reliability, etc. Measure what matters and act on that, rather than trying to guess performance from link type. Matthew Kaufman (Sent from my iPhone)
On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com> wrote: I am curious if there is some sort of igmp or other form of message that would reliably detect if a switch had a bridge on it. How could deviceA detect deviceC was a bridge in this case? deviceA -> ethernet switch -> deviceB ethernet switch -> deviceC with bridged wifi and ethernet question came up in the context of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/2015-December/002231.html -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi
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- reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Dave Taht (Dec 15)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Jared Mauch (Dec 15)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Matthew Kaufman (Dec 15)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? William Herrin (Dec 15)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Dave Taht (Dec 16)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Masataka Ohta (Dec 16)
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- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Carsten Bormann (Dec 16)
- RE: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Chuck Church (Dec 16)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Anoop Ghanwani (Dec 16)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Dave Taht (Dec 19)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Dave Taht (Dec 16)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? William Herrin (Dec 19)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Larry Sheldon (Dec 19)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? John Levine (Dec 19)