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CIS460 – NETWORK ANALYSIS AND DESIGN CHAPTER 7 - Selecting Bridging, Switching, and Routing Protocols Introduction In this chapter we are going to look at bridging, switching, and routing protocol attributes of: Network Traffic characteristics Bandwidth, memory, and CPU usage The approximate number of peer routers or switches supported The capability to quickly adapt to changes in an internetwork The capability to authenticate route updates for security reasons Making Decisions as Part of the Top-Down Network Design Process Factors involved in making sound decisions: Goals must be established Many options should be explored The consequences of the decisions should be investigated Contingency plans should be made Use a decision to match options with goals Making Decisions as Part of the Top-Down Network Design Process (Cont’d) Table 7-1 shows a decision table Once decision is made look at it to determine: What could go wrong Hs it been tried before How will customer react Contingency plans if customer disapproves Can use during both logical and physical design phase Selecting Bridging and Switching Methods Decision making is simple because of few options If includes Ethernet bridges and switches most likely use transparent bridging with spanning-tree protocol Might also need a protocol for connecting switches that support virtual LANs With Token Ring networks options include source-route bridging (SRB), source-route transparent (SRT) bridging and source-route switching (SRS) Characterizing Bridging and Switching Methods Bridges operate at Layers 1 and 2 of OSI Determine how to forward a frame based on information in Layer 2 header Bridge does not look at Layer 3 information Bridge segments bandwidth domains so that devices do not compete with each other for media access control Bridge does forward Ethernet collisions or MAC frames in a Token Ring network Characterizing Bridging and Switching Methods (Cont’d) Bridge does not segment broadcast domains. It sends broa