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A bridge is a link layer device that forwards traffic between network segments. A bridge can be a hardware device or a software device running within a host machine's kernel. | A bridge is a link layer device that forwards traffic between network segments. A bridge can be a hardware device or a software device running within a host machine's kernel. On Linux, [[brctl]] is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the ethernet bridge configuration in the linux kernel. | ||
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A bridge is a link layer device that forwards traffic between network segments. A bridge can be a hardware device or a software device running within a host machine's kernel. On Linux, brctl is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the ethernet bridge configuration in the linux kernel.