On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >In order to not have to change the MTU of everything, you'd have to
> >fragment out 4096 byte FDDI frames into 1500 byte ethernet frames.
> 
> ...which would make it not really a bridge since it's operating on
> level datagrams, and as such, ought to also be decrementing the ttl,
> etc.

IIRC, The Cisco 1200s I use at home don't decrement TTL when bridging fddi
to ethernet or vice-versa.  Now, whether or not that's correct is
debatable... what is the defacto (or RFC) for bridging which requires
some form of protocol groking, such as with MTUs, etc...?

-
Jon
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