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       Title     : Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices      
       Author(s) : B. Mandeville
       Filename  : draft-ietf-bmwg-lanswitch-05.txt
       Pages     : 19
       Date      : 07/07/1997

This document is intended to provide terminology for the benchmarking of 
local area network (LAN) switching devices. It extends the terminology 
already defined for benchmarking network interconnect devices in RFCs 1242 
and 1944 to switching devices. Although it might be found useful to apply 
some of the terms defined here to a broader range of network interconnect 
devices, this document primarily deals with devices which switch frames at 
the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. It defines terms in relation to the 
traffic put to use when benchmarking switching devices, forwarding 
performance, latency, address handling and filtering.                      

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