Susceptible to broadcast storms (information sent out to everybody)
Slow performance and response time
Poor congestion control (focuses only on MAC addresses)
Cannot implement private 10Mbps or 100Mbps technologies to servers or clients
Cannot improve aggregate forwarding rates
Generally, limited to two bridges on one segment
Need for bridge security filtering on link addresses
Protection of confidential portions of the network
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