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From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz (George Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: bridges & address filtering
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Date: 2 Jun 89 04:00:12 GMT
Organization: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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On a parallel note, what is the effect of address and <other> filtering
on throughput? My personal measure based on light loadings of some
2Mbit ethernet bridges is that ANY address filtering makes throughput 
appreciably slow. -Of course large packet protocols are less affected 
but per-character packet activity is a bummer. I was surprised how visible 
this could be given 10Mbit one side, 2Mbit the other.

	-George

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