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

Kevin Graham mahargk at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 02:31:10 EDT 2005


On 4/27/05, David J. Hughes <bambi at hughes.com.au> wrote:
>
> Nahh, just a side effect of people running longer arp caches than cam
> table timers.  We reconfigure the mac timeout to match the arp timeout
> to ensure this doesn't happen.

...which I think is Jeff's whole point -- what (if any) rationale is
there for the default arp cache and mac fdb timeouts being so
drastically different?



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