InterPoll: Why It Doesn‘t Detect Bridges or Gateways
Some users have noticed that Inter*Poll only displays local bridges when encountering bridges or gateways, like a FastPath. For example, in an office with an Ethernet backbone and three Kinetics FastPaths, Inter*Poll finds all devices on AppleTalk and Ethernet. However, it ignores two FastPaths that reside outside the Inter*Poll workstation zone.
The reason for this is that unnamed network devices, like bridges or gateways, do not respond to echo packets outside their assigned networks. Therefore, Inter*Poll fails to detect bridges and gateways located beyond the local network.