Reply to post: Re: LAN, meet WAN, with minimal supervision

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Re: LAN, meet WAN, with minimal supervision

Depends what you mean 'physical'. Bridging is a huge issue for Ethernet because of broadcasts, and it never having been designed to work on a traditional LAN.. But it's become ubiquitous & a bit late/hard to change the specs so broadcasts are less of a problem.

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