[c-nsp] Cat6509 CAM entries flapping

[Lincoln Dale (ltd)]

> It's bizarre, and I don't fully understand it, but the source of the
> problem was a misconfigured Windows 2003 server. [..]
> I can figure is that the combination of errors somehow caused L2
traffic
> involving this server to be misdirected. I can't explain it, but
> correcting the server's netmask immediately caused the CAM flapping
>  to stop.

sounds like your Windows box was doing Proxy ARP.


cheers,

lincoln.