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| 3604.1 | You must have one hell of a network! | CGOS01::DMARLOWE | Have you been HUBbed lately? | Mon Jun 10 1996 18:58 | 14 |
| Well, that means that you must have all 8,000 addresses in the table
and active. Remember that the AGE TIMER ages out any address that
hasn't been heard from in the last 2 minutes.
If you dump the address table to a file, it will include both active
and aged out entries up to a total of 8,000.
If the 900EF does go into flood mode at >8,000 active entries (and I
assume it does) it shouldn't last too long as some addresses should be
aged out and then flooding should stop.
99.9999999% of all networks shouldn't have to worry about table limits.
dave
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| 3604.2 | Thanks. | SCASS1::DAVIES | Mark, NPB Sales, Dallas,TX | Tue Jun 11 1996 08:55 | 1 |
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| 3604.3 | That would also be one verrry busy LAN :-) | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | Don't use time/words carelessly | Tue Jun 11 1996 12:36 | 11 |
| I didn't get in to see this note yesterday. Yes, what Dave describes
is right. Flooding would occur if the 8,000 address limit is
exceeded. I'll also add that as I recall when doing some of the
original testing of the switch products, we found it difficult to
test this (but we did manage to eventually). It would be quite
difficult to exceed the 8,000 address limit in 99% of the normal
network configurations encountered by customers, and not have
some small number of addresses age out over a short period of time
(order of magnitude in minutes).
Bob
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