-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:14:47AM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > i have a similar situation with my cable modem, from the day i installed > it. as far as i know, the cablemodem is like an ethernet bridge, and > forwards all ethernet traffic to your pc. dsl modems (bridges) work in > the same manner.
Bridges do not forward all ethernet traffic to your PC. Bridges only forward *broadcast* traffic. If bridges didn't seperate collision domains, they'd either be cable joiners or modems depending on what exactly they bridge. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5e0DJ5vLSqVpK2kRAp2nAKCpuzigV7t2GSRkrhcIdW7xYndpsACeIUra WjTyAW60z+Cy4rEphU6dq4Y= =BtYj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
