reliably detecting the presence of a bridge?

Tue Dec 15 14:46:51 UTC 2015

Why do you care if there's a bridge? Seems you care about higher latency, packet loss, lower reliability, etc. Measure what matters and act on that, rather than trying to guess performance from link type.

Matthew Kaufman

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> On Dec 15, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am curious if there is some sort of igmp or other form of message
> that would reliably detect if a switch had a bridge on it. How could
> deviceA detect deviceC was a bridge in this case?
> 
> deviceA  -> ethernet switch -> deviceB
>                    ethernet switch -> deviceC with bridged wifi and ethernet
> 
> question came up in the context of:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/2015-December/002231.html
> 
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> Dave Täht
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