Transparent Bridging
With a transparent bridge, as with a repeater, the presence of one (or more) bridges in a route between two communicating stations in transparent to the two stations
All routing decisions are made exclusively by the bridge
A transparent bridge automatically initializes and configures itself (in terms of its routing information) in a dynamic way after It has been put into service
A basic bridge has just two ports, whereas a multiport bridge has a number of connected ports and hence segments