RFC 2072:Router Renumbering Guide
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... order to justify the budget for the technical renumbering. There also may be pure technnical reasons to renumber, such as changes in technology (e.g., from bridging to routing). ...
... recognizes that renumbering may be required due to the initial installation of routers in a bridged legacy network. Organizations may have had an adequate bridging ...
... bridged legacy network. Organizations may have had an adequate bridging solution that did not scale with growth. Some organizations could not able to move to routers until ...
... performance improved [Carpenter] to be comparable to bridges. Other considerations include compliance with routing ...
... IP subnet. The numbering plan needs to work with these new ideas. Legacy bridged networks and leading-edge workgroup ...
... Bridge Limitations; Internal Use of LAN Switching ...
... switches are specialized, high- performance bridges, which make their main forwarding decisions based on Layer 2 (MAC ...
... into a hierarchical, subnetted space consistent with routing. Traditional bridged networks share many of the problems of workgroup switches, but have additional performance ...
... networks share many of the problems of workgroup switches, but have additional performance problems when bridged connectivity extends across slow WAN links ...
... active in a subnet to which the access server (or set of bridged access servers) belongs. These access server functions may be part of the software of a ...



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