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by whalesalad 2386 days ago
Being a little pedandic here aren't we? For all intents and purposes a bridge is basically a switch with two ports. At the end of the day this is running on a Linux kernel so it can basically be any networking device you want it to be, even a router.
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Or an extension repeater adapter?
No, even a two-port bridge is smarter than physical extension/repeater. I.e. the bridge will not forward ethernet frames to the other port if the destination if assumed to be in the originating network segment.