Reducing Traffic in LAN

There are various reasons available why traffic increased in network. We know that less number of packets available on network then packet transferring speed is better. So we have to reduce traffic in network. I am just interesting in reducing traffic in LAN.

Fig 1.Normal working of switch transferring packet from A to G

When a packet is transferred in LAN network it first passes to switch. Then switch broadcast these packets to all available links connected to switch. Switch makes multiple copies of an incoming packet and then broadcast in network. Then each system receives packet in LAN and checks for an IP address is packet having IP address of its own or not. If yes then it receives packet otherwise it discards the packet. Switch does not use any statistics algorithm to send packet on only one link which gets delivered to destination, rather than system have to check address on packet.

These above stated reason causes increase in traffic of LAN. Now how to reduce traffic in LAN. The concept is just needed like as router in network. We know how router works for sending packets to destination. Router maintains a routing table containing list of all IP address associated with router. As like router we have to maintain a table in switch for storing IP address associated with each system connected to switch. For that purpose, we have to add a temporary memory device like RAM which contains routing table.

Now if a packet gets received to a switch it get forwarded on only those links where is destination system. As it transfer packet to only on one link number of packets (traffic) get reduced, this causes fast data transfer.

Fig 2 .transferring packet from A to G