If you've ever poked around your router settings, you might have come across something called "Bridge Mode." It sounds technical (and, well, it is), but the concept is actually pretty simple.

We previously covered the LANBridge 100 Ethernet bridge and what it meant as Ethernet saw itself forced to scale from a shared medium (ether) to a star topology featuring network bridges and switches.

Bridge Mode turns off a router's routing capabilities, letting it act as a network "bridge" (hence the name). In simpler terms, Bridge Mode allows two routers to work together as one single ...