Asante Technologies 1012 manual Simple Transparent Bridge, Bridging between segments

Chapter 2 — Connecting to the Network

A Simple Transparent Bridge

The more hubs and users added, the more traffic occurs on the backbone, until we eventually reach a point at which overall net- work performance begins to degrade.As a general rule, bridges are typically required when users begin to complain that response times are too great or file transfers are too slow.These symptoms are usually seen when overall utilization exceeds 40% on a regular basis. Now it is time to split the net into two segments and add a bridge between them. Logically, the net will look like this:

Thin Ethernet connected to hub 3in1 port

	AsantéHub 1012
Thin Ethernet connected
to hub 3in1 port	AsantéHub 1012
	ASANTE
AsantéHub 1012
Thin Ethernet connected
to hub 3in1 port	AsantéHub 1012
	10BaseT to
ASANTE
AsantéHub 1012	network devices
AsantéHub 1012
ASANTE	10BaseT to
	network devices
10BaseT to
network devices

Segment A 10Base5 backbone

Bridge External Port connected to Segment A 10Base5 backbone

AsantéBridge 1012		Segment A connected
	AsantéHub 1012	to the AsantéBridge External
ASANTE	BRIDGE	Port
		Segment B connected
Hub 3in1 Port connected to	10BaseT to	to the internal
		AsantéBridge Hub Port
the Segment B 10Base5 backbone
	network devices
	(also on Segment B)

Segment B 10Base5 backbone

Thin Ethernet connected	AsantéHub 1012
to hub 3in1 port
AsantéHub 1012	AsantéHub 1012
	ASANTE
AsantéHub 1012
ASANTE
AsantéHub 1012	10BaseT to
	network devices
	AsantéHub 1012
ASANTE

10BaseT to network devices

Figure 2-2 Bridging between segments

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