Auditing the Internet, E - Business

EVALUATING A BRIDGE

Bridge, a link layer device connecting network segments

Evaluate appropriateness of bridge

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

Evaluate security

Need for bridge security filtering on link addresses

Protection of confidential portions of the network



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