LAN/WAN Internetworking Performance Issues
01 January 1988
Demand for interconnectivity from Local Area Networks (LANs) to Wide Area Networks (WANs) has been increasing rapidly. Several strategies exist to provide these LAN/WAN internetworking capabilities with each method exhibiting district performance issues. In this paper, performance issues are presented for bridge, router, and Brouter technologies specifically as they relate to WAN networking. The case of an ISO-to-X.25 router is discussed including a set of recommendations to improve the performance of such a router.