[c-nsp] unknown unicast flooding - particularly regarding fhrp's

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Mon Jan 21 12:12:03 EST 2013


On 21/01/2013 16:56, Aaron wrote:
> is it all about lower arp timeouts below 300 secs
> so to artificially prop-up bridge tables and keep them fresh?  My goodness
> that's making arp very busy.

It's all about keeping the cam timeout on your switch higher than the arp
timeout on your routers and servers.  ARP won't be particularly busy
because you're not going to have large L2 domains, right?  Right?

Nick



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