SmartBridge a scalable bridge architecture.

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Computer communication review. 30, 4 (2000).
Main Author:	Rodeheffer, Thomas L.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Theory of computation. Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity. Nonnumerical algorithms and problems. Routing and layout. Mathematics of computing. Discrete mathematics. Graph theory. Trees. Design. Measurement. Performance. Standardization. Theory.