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This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switching Devices
Author(s) : R. Mandeville, J. Perser
Filename : draft-ietf-bmwg-mswitch-02.txt
Pages : 34
Date : 06-Dec-99
This document is intended to provide methodology for the benchmarking
of local area network (LAN) switching devices. It extends the
methodology already defined for benchmarking network interconnecting
devices in RFC 1944 to switching devices.
This RFC primarily deals with devices which switch frames at the
Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. It provides a methodology for
benchmarking switching devices, forwarding performance, congestion
control, latency, address handling and filtering. In addition to
defining the tests, this document also describes specific formats for
reporting the results of the tests.
A previous document, 'Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching
Devices' [2], defined many of the terms that are used in this
document. The terminology document SHOULD be consulted before
attempting to make use of this document.
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