Today's router and switch designers face a daunting task. They must build systems that support high availability while also efficiently and cost-effectively guiding network traffic through a mesh of ...
There are significant differences between the PCI Express architecture and its future cousin Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), but contrary to popular belief, the ability to build robust ...
A device that ties two network segments together. Commonly used in Ethernet networks and also called an "adaptive bridge," the transparent bridge learns which node is connected to which port by ...
I've been writing a multipart series on building a transparent (bridging) firewall using Linux. Specifically, I'm using the distribution OpenWrt running on a Linksys WRT54GL broadband router, a ...
There are significant differences between the PCI Express architecture and its future cousin Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), but contrary to popular belief, the ability to build robust ...