From: Asbjorn Hojmark (Asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 19:06:26 GMT-3
> When assigning an IP address to the TRbrf, what is the logic
> behind this? Am I correct in my assumption that like an
> ethernet Vlan, you would use that IP address for the default-
> gateway of the hosts attached to that segment?
Though somewhat simplified, you can think of the TRF as a ring
and the BRF as a bridge group of rings. The BRF is a broadcast
domain and could as such be compared to an ethernet VLAN.
Just like an ethernet VLAN, the host on a token-ring BRF will
be in one or more IP subnets and for each subnet, you'll need
a gateway to gain access to other subnets.
HTH,
-A
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