[j-nsp] what is differnet between bridge and ethernet-switching ?

[Ben Dale]

>>>> There is no difference between the two.
>>>> 

...Until You jump on an SRX branch where you use both for completely different things (eg: transparent mode) ; )

My (albeit limited) understanding is that bridging interfaces/bridge-domains aren't bound to a specific ingress VLAN tag, allowing you to bring diverse tagged interfaces together into the one broadcast domain easily, whereas ethernet-switching interfaces/VLANs strictly enforce a single ingress tag to a domain.

>>>> 
>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> From: "bruno.juniper" <bruno.juniper at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, Aug 13, 2012 4:01 am
>>>> Subject: [j-nsp] what is differnet between bridge and
>>> ethernet-switching ?
>>>> To: "juniper-nsp" <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>>>> 
>>>> what is differnet between bridge and ethernet-switching ?     i am
>>> always confused .  as i know ,when i configure mx ,we use bridge . when i
>>> configure ex ,we use ethernet-switching.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> root at test# set interfaces fe-0/0/0 unit 0 family ?
>>>> Possible completions:
>>>> + apply-groups         Groups from which to inherit configuration data
>>>> + apply-groups-except  Don't inherit configuration data from these
>>> groups
>>>>> bridge               Layer-2 bridging parameters
>>>>> ccc                  Circuit cross-connect parameters
>>>>> ethernet-switching   Ethernet switching parameters
>>>>> inet                 IPv4 parameters
>>>>> inet6                IPv6 protocol parameters
>>>>> iso                  OSI ISO protocol parameters
>>>>> mlfr-end-to-end      Multilink Frame Relay end-to-end protocol
>>> parameters
>>>>> mlfr-uni-nni         Multilink Frame Relay UNI NNI protoc
>>>> 
>>>> ------------------
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Bruno
>>>> 
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