Transparent Bridging

Most Ethernet LAN switches use a very cool system called transparent bridging to create their address lookup tables. Transparent bridging is a technology that allows a switch to learn everything it needs to know about the location of nodes on the network without the network administrator having to do anything. Transparent bridging has five parts:

• Learning
• Flooding
• Filtering
• Forwarding
• Aging

Here's how it works:

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In the next section, you'll get a step-by-step description of how transparent bridging works.