eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (07/25/89)
wow! quite a list of recommendations... a few comments:
-- about those "incredible" forwarding/filtering rates.
many of them are BUNK! there is no good standard for measuring
bridge performance now. the chair you are sitting in could currently
be said to have a filtering rate of 1 Gigapacket per second.
forwarding rates can be misleading as well. what happens when
your destination ethernet is busy? are packets dropped?
buffering and load-smoothing characteristics are important and
can be largely independent of filtering/forwarding rates...
-- the DEC bridge had a bug -- but it is still the standard by
which bridges are measured, with regard to performance. it's quick.
steve elias, software engineer (bridging)
chipcom corporation
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...... Steve Elias (eli@spdcc.com);(6178591389);(6178906844) {}
/* so much entropy, so little time */dbs@hprnd.HP.COM (Dave Sheehy) (08/05/89)
HP has a bridge too! I think it sells in the $6000 range. It has spanning tree capability and a management application which runs on a PC. The management application allows you to retrieve statistics and implement some security features among other things. David Sheehy