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C
HAPTER
7: B
RIDGE
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IDE
AND
B
RIDGE
P
ORT
P
ARAMETERS
Key Bridging
Concepts
Before you configure bridge-wide or bridge port parameters, review the
following key concepts.
Learning Addresses
Bridges
learn
addresses so that they can determine which packets to
forward from one bridge port to another. A bridge learns addresses by
processing the network traffic that it receives. For a bridge to learn the
address of a station on the network (a
source address
), that station must
transmit a packet. Addresses that are learned are called
dynamic
addresses
.
Each bridge maintains a table, called the
address table
, which lists each
learned address and associates it with a port. (The address table also lists
manually configured addresses called
static addresses
.)
The system can store up to 32 K addresses in its address table.
Aging Addresses
A dynamic address remains in the bridge’s address table as long as the
station to which it relates regularly transmits packets through the bridge.
If the station does not transmit within a specified period of time, the
dynamic address is
aged out
(deleted) from the address table.
Address aging ensures that, if a station moves to a different segment on
the network, packets are no longer be forwarded to the station’s former
location. Address aging is necessary because a bridge can learn only a
finite number of addresses.
Forwarding, Filtering,
and Flooding Packets
A bridge filters, floods, or forwards packets by comparing:
■
The packet’s destination address to the source addresses in the
bridge’s address table.
■
The destination bridge port (if known) to the port on which the packet
was received.
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Страница 330: ...330 CHAPTER 12 VIRTUAL ROUTER REDUNDANCY PROTOCOL VRRP ...
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