Application/Control Number: 09/629,570 Page 10 Art Unit: 2153 In considering claim 12, although Hughes does not explicitly teach TCP/IP, Examiner takes official notice that TCP/IP is a standard well known protocol used for internet communications.
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Figure 5 shows the number of flooding packets produced in a connection trial in a normal traffic condition on a network consisting of 5 switching nodes, 9 hosts and 16 links.
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