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Re: Mysterious network traffic



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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.

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