98- https://doi.org/10.1145/347057.347546
SmartBridge
- Aug 28, 2000
- ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
- Thomas L Rodeheffer +2 more
Abstract
As the number of hosts attached to a network increases beyond what can be connected by a single local area network (LAN), forwarding packets between hosts on different LANs becomes an issue. Two common solutions to the forwarding problem are IP routing and spanning tree bridging . IP routing scales well, but imposes the administrative burden of managing subnets and assigning addresses. Spanning tree bridging, in contrast, requires no administration, but often does not perform well in a large network, because too much traffic must detour toward the root of the spanning tree, wasting link bandwidth.
- # Single Local Area Network
- # Local Area Network
- # Large Network
- # Single Area
- # Single Network
- # Single Local Area
- # Administrative Burden
- # Link Bandwidth
- # Common Solutions
- # Forwarding Problem
