Bridge - Motorola WiNG 5.5 Reference Manual

3. Select Network
4. Select Route
The Route Entries
Destination
FLAGS
Gateway
Interface
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13.3.21.3 Bridge

Network
Bridging is a forwarding technique used in networks. Bridging makes no assumption about where a particular address is
located. It relies on the flooding and examination of source addresses in received packet headers to locate unknown devices.
Once a device is located, its location is stored in a table to avoid broadcasting to that device again. Bridging is limited by its
dependency on flooding, and is used in local area networks only. A bridge and an access point are very much alike, as an access
point can be viewed as a bridge with a number of ports.
The Bridge screen provides details about the Integrate Gateway Server (IGS), which is a router connected to an access point.
The IGS performs the following:
• Issues IP addresses
• Throttles bandwidth
and expand the menu to reveal its sub menu
Entries.
Figure 13-65 Access Point - Network Route Entries screen
screen supports the following:
Displays the IP address of the destination route address.
The flag signifies the condition of the direct or indirect route. A direct route is where the
destination is directly connected to the forwarding host. With an indirect route, the
destination host is not directly connected to the forwarding host. Possible flags include U
(route is up), H (target is a host), G (use gateway), R (reinstate route for dynamic routing), D
(dynamically installed by daemon or redirect), M (modified from routing daemon or redirect),
A (installed by addrconf), C (cache entry) or! (reject route).
Displays the IP address of the gateway used to route packets to the specified destination
subnet.
Displays the interface name of the destination subnet.
Select the Refresh button to update the screen's statistics counters to their latest values.
items.
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