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Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge?
From: Andrew McConachie <smutt () depht com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:04:21 -0500
Flip a bit in the Ethernet FCS as it egresses deviceA. If the frame arrives with a correct checksum at deviceB, then there's a switch in the middle. Most modern switches recalculate FCS at egress port.
If the frame never arrives, most likely there is a switch in between. If the frame arrives with the broken FCS, there is no intermediate switch.
--Andrew On 12/15/15 4:48 AM, Dave Taht 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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- 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? 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)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? James R Cutler (Dec 19)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Larry Sheldon (Dec 19)
- Re: reliably detecting the presence of a bridge? Larry Sheldon (Dec 19)