[c-nsp] Switch mac address appearing in a VLAN going through it

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:25:02AM +0000, Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:
> Am I mistaken in believing that if a VLAN only goes "through" a
> switch, the switch's mac address shouldn't appear in the mac address
> table of other switches (on that VLAN)?

What you see is spanning tree packets - that are sourced from the
neighbouring switch (in your case: the 3550).

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de