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

[Greg Schwimer]

Network.Security wrote:

>There is a pseudo-Cisco Best Practice white paper on this. 
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Care to point us in the direction of that there whitepaper?

>Brad Swanson
>Target Corp.
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>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David J. Hughes
>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:04 AM
>To: Lincoln Dale
>Cc: 'cisco-nsp'
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Re-thinking (remembering) how a switch operates
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>>i'm wondering if its a bad cable such that you actually have a 
>>unidirectional link that can receive but not transmit...
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>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.
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>David
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