Thursday, September 1, 2011

Diffrence between bridging and Routing

both Bridging and routing are used for connecting two or more networks


when bridge is installed it gathers all the packets from one network 
then repeat them on other network.
it have features like Broadcast filtering
it takes place in data link layer of OSI model

Routers do packets exchange
they work in network layer of OSI model
they provide various ways of filtering
like path control and traffic control.