Bridge

Bridging is a forwarding technique making no assumption about where a particular network address is located. It depends on flooding and the examination of source addresses in received packet headers to locate unknown devices. Once a device is located, its location is stored in a table to avoid broadcasting to that device again. Bridging is limited by its dependency on flooding, and is used in local area networks only. A bridge and a controller are very similar, since a controller is a bridge with a number of ports.

To view network bridge information:

1. Select the Statistics menu from the Web UI.
2. Expand the System node from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). The System node expands to display the RF Domains created within the managed network.
3. Expand the RF Domain node.
4. Select a Wireless Controller.
5. Expand the Network menu from the left-hand side of the UI.
6. Select Bridge.

   The Statistics > Controller > Bridge stats is displayed in the right-hand pane.

   This screen displays the following:

   Bridge Name	Displays the numeric ID of the network bridge.
   MAC Address	Displays the MAC address of each listed bridge.
   Interface	Displays the controller or service platform physical port interface the bridge uses to transfer packets. Interface availability is slightly different amongst supported controller and service platform models.
   VLAN	Displays the VLAN the bridge is using as a virtual interface within the network.
   Forwarding	Displays whether the bridge is forwarding packets and in a forwarding state.

7. Select Refresh to update the statistics counters to the latest values.