On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:48:50AM +0100, Dave Taht wrote:
I am curious if there is some sort of igmp or other form of message that would reliably detect if a switch had a bridge on it. How could deviceA detect deviceC was a bridge in this case?
deviceA -> ethernet switch -> deviceB ethernet switch -> deviceC with bridged wifi and ethernet
question came up in the context of:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/babel-users/2015-December/002231.ht...
The best way I've seen is to measure latency to the devices and infer from there. You can always make the latency longer, but making it shorter is much harder :) - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.