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Serial Bridge
- Subject: Serial Bridge
- From: "nwemail27" <nwemail27@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:59:03 -0000
Hi All,
Does a serial bridge exist for xAP?
I.e.
Bridging
xAP is, so far is as practicable, network agnostic. Where two networks are
to be joined, so that xAP messages can be passed between then, a software
bridge is used. The bridge understands the implementation details of the
xAP protocol on each physical network, and performs the necessary protocol
conversions to pass the message from one network to another.
In some cases, the bridge may provide a configuration interface to allow
traffic in one or both directions to be restricted.
A proposal has been made to permit messages to be flagged
"non-routable" in the xAP-Header, and for bridges to never pass
these messages. Currently this item is still open.
Messages passed over the bridge always have the xAP-header hop count
increased. A bridge may be configured to discard messages with hop-count
> n to prevent looping/broadcast storms.
Regards,
Neil Wrightson.
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