RFC 2642:Cabletron's VLS Protocol Specification
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... o Call tapping services. Interswitch Tap messages are used to monitor traffic moving between two end stations. Traffic can be monitored in one or both directions along the connection ...
... services. Interswitch Tap messages are used to monitor traffic moving between two end stations. Traffic can be monitored in one or both directions along the connection path. ...


... convergence is short and involves a minimum of routing traffic. All switches ...
... links. This in turn reduces the amount of routing protocol traffic and the size of the topological database. ...
... This method eliminates unnecessary duplication of message traffic and processing, thereby increasing the overall efficiency of the switch ...
... link state advertisements. (This optimizes performance by eliminating unnecessary traffic between the switches.) ...
... neighbors to which it is adjacent. This reduces the amount of routing protocol traffic across the fabric, particularly for multi-access links ...


... state, the interface is unusable, and no protocol traffic is sent or received on the interface. In this state ...
... interface is unavailable for regular data traffic. Point-to-Point ...


... the faster topological changes will be detected. However, a smaller interval will also generate more routing traffic. A typical value for a local area network would be 10 seconds. ...



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