SUNET TRef - local area network group

Information from the SUNET TRef local area network group (LANG).

A somewhat abridged version of the first four reports below (vendor visits 2000, next generation campus LAN design, gigabit network design issues, and gigabit ethernet jumbo frames) as a PDF.
Travel report from vendor visits 2000. Background for the next generation campus LAN design report.
The next generation campus LAN design report. Read the travel report from vendor visits 2000 first.
Useful background for high-speed network design
- Gigabit network design issues. Minimizing latency and allowing big MTUs matter. High-speed networks must be nearly lossless, and need enough buffering to cope with huge bandwidth*delay.
  Gigabit ethernet jumbo frames. What are jumbo frames, and why should you care?
  Why don't most users see high performance? A slide show illustrating these issues.
  TCP Tuning Guide for Distributed Application on Wide Area Networks
High-availability network design (PDF) from Cisco. Keep it simple, disable all features you do not need.
Enabling high performance data transfers on hosts and a slide show TCP/IP and network performance tuning.
Whitepaper on the macroscopic behaviour of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm (PS).
Discussion on IPv6? The Why IPv6? draft (expired).

SUNET TRef - local area network group / SUNET-TREF@SEGATE.SUNET.SE / 13 Jan 2002