Which port types cannot be manually added to a bridge?

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Which port types cannot be manually added to a bridge?

Bridges operate at Layer 2, combining interfaces into a single broadcast domain and learning MAC addresses to forward frames. The ports you add to a bridge are expected to carry Ethernet frames directly (or present an Ethernet-like interface). VLAN interfaces and virtual Ethernet ports are designed to function at Layer 2, and EOIP tunnels are specifically made to transport Ethernet frames over IP, so they can be bridged to extend a LAN across an IP path. A GRE tunnel, by contrast, is a Layer 3 construct that encapsulates IP packets for routing through a tunnel and does not present a native Ethernet port for the bridge to attach to. Because of that, GRE tunnels can’t be added as bridge ports. If you need to connect networks over GRE, you’d route traffic through the tunnel rather than bridge it.

Which port types cannot be manually added to a bridge?

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Which port types cannot be manually added to a bridge?

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