[ednog] wireless bridging problem

Julian Y. Koh kohster at northwestern.edu
Wed May 18 14:57:58 EDT 2005


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At 14:11 -0400 05/18/2005, Jeff Murphy wrote:
>We currently have no way to automatically find the users in resnet doing
>the bridging.

We see this primarily with Windows machines.  The bridging hosts will send
Topology Change BPDUs out the wired interface, which should be detectable on
the switch port.

Unfortunately, at least on our Cisco switches, these TCN messages cause
multicast flooding..... :(


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Julian Y. Koh                         <mailto:kohster at northwestern.edu>
Network Engineer                                   <phone:847-467-5780>
Telecommunications and Network Services         Northwestern University
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