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[Edwin Hoffman <hoffmane@postoffice.pacbell.net>]

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If you have a problem with LANE bus performance, I suggest that you consider
using the Cabletron Smartswitch 2500BB. It has a 100,000pps Bus/Broadcast
performance spec.
use it as a LANE server and unload your switches of the task.

Miguel Angel Chana wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     There are implementations where the SCP(Switch Control Processor)
> has the ability to simultaneously run LEC and LECS/LES/BUS services.
> I can think of Fore switches now, and for sure many others. In the
> other side, Cisco tends to implement the LECS/LES/BUS services in external
> boxes (mainly big routers, such as 75XX), but nothing avoids you from
> running
> this services in the switch.
>
>     The drawbacks of such approach uses to be the performance. I mean,
> you are demanding a high processing power to move frames in the BUS and
> simultaneously segmenting, reassembling, for the LEC. In any case, I´ve
> work with switches performing very well with 200 broadcast packets per
> second,
> while they were running several LECS, no problem at all.
>
>     Best Regards.
>
> rakesh bahl escribió en mensaje <70hkev$rv2$1@debris.uits.indiana.edu>...
> >Hi,
> >1)Can a LEC and a LANE Service Component(LECS or BUS or LES )be on the
> >same switch?I mean what's stopping them being on the same switch?
> >
> >2)What do the vendors follow wrt above question?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >--Rakesh
> >
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