SmartBridge: a scalable bridge architecture
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
NCA '03 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
A fast algorithm for computing minimum routing cost spanning trees
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Understanding and mitigating the effects of count to infinity in Ethernet networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Simple protocol enhancements of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol over ring topologies
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Ethernet is pervasive. This is due in part to its ease of use. Equipment can be added to an Ethernet network with little or no manual configuration. Furthermore, Ethernet is self-healing in the event of equipment failure or removal. However, there are scenarios where a local event can lead to network-wide packet loss and duplication due to slow or faulty reconfiguration of the spanning tree. Moreover, in some cases the packet loss and duplication may persist indefinitely. To address these problems, we introduce the EtherFuse, a new device that can be inserted into an existing Ethernet to speed the reconfiguration of the spanning tree and suppress packet duplication. EtherFuse is backward compatible and requires no change to the existing hardware, software, or protocols. We describe a prototype EtherFuse implementation and experimentally demonstrate its effectiveness. Specifically, we characterize how quickly it responds to network failures, its ability to reduce packet loss and duplication, and its benefits on the end-to-end performance of common applications.