From: Jeff Shultz 

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:33:37 -0400, Geo wrote:

> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.04.05.03.14.28.702344{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>
>> Yet another advantage of RFC1483 Bridged mode... we didn't lose any. Of
>> course, I'm not sure if we had 445 blocked at the time or not - it was a
>> few months before I was hired.
>
> I've not worked much with bridged mode, only one DSL provider we work with
> uses it. But I do have a question, if using bridged mode, aren't they all
> basically on the same ethernet segment so they see each other's broadcast
> traffic? In other words if it's a bunch of windows boxes with no firewalls
> couldn't they browse to each other?
>
> Geo.

Not with the proper Cisco router settings at the head end they don't...
(don't ask me what they are, I'm not initiated into that magic)

Especially since we also block 137-140 as well.

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