[c-nsp] Re-thinking (remembering) how a switch operates

[Ian Henderson]

Jeff Kell wrote:
> No, it was fine.  After 'pinging' it (so that it had to transmit the
> reply) the mysterious flooding would stop (for five minutes/300 seconds
> until the mac-address-table entry timed out again).

We've had a similar experience with games servers. The admins would bind 
a particular game to an IP address on the second ethernet port, but keep 
the default route pointing to the first interface. 30Mbit of 
Counterstrike makes for an unhappy network. :)

Rgds,



- I.

-- 
Ian Henderson CCNA, CCNP
Senior Network Engineer

iiNet Limited
Chime Communications Pty Ltd