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Addressing the Scalability of Ethernet with MOOSE (2009)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Scott, Malcolm Wagner-Hall, Daniel Moore, Andrew Crowcroft, Jon |
| Description | Ethernet does not scale well to large networks. The flat MAC address space, whilst having obvious benefits for the user and administrator, is the primary cause of this poor scalability; other recent efforts to improve upon Ethernet’s scalability have addressed symptoms, rather than this underlying cause. In this paper we present MOOSE, Multi-level Origin-Organised Scalable Ethernet, an Ethernet switch architecture that performs inplace rewriting of MAC addresses in order to impose a hierarchy upon the address space without reconfiguration or modification of connected devices. This removes the need for switches to maintain large forwarding databases, is of direct use in implementing improved routing, and allows for a variety of other scalability and security innovations. We also present a globallyscalable, distributed and resilient protocol for the automatic assignment of addresses to switches, and for detecting and cheaply resolving addressing conflicts. 1 |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In Proc. DC CAVES Workshop |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ethernet Switch Architecture Direct Use Underlying Cause Mac Address Connected Device Poor Scalability Recent Effort Large Network Multi-level Origin-organised Scalable Ethernet Obvious Benefit Flat Mac Address Space Security Innovation Address Space Improved Routing Primary Cause Automatic Assignment Resilient Protocol Large Forwarding Database |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
