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As mentioned in the introduction, software-based gateway bridging allows routing and bridging to work together. We can create a logical switch, for example App-Tier logical switch, that connects to the DLR and at the same time is bridged to a VLAN-backed dvPortGroup on VLAN 102, as shown in the following diagram:

For a logical switch that is bridged and routed to DLR at the same time, the logical switches will have an i icon that says Routing Enabled, as shown in App-Tier logical switch in the following screenshot:

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