[j-nsp] qfabric 1536k mac address?

[Eugeniu Patrascu]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:20 PM, giovanni rana <superburriccu at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Even in the case you mentioned the node shall be able to keep a table
> where there's an index Made by 1536k entries. I can understand that some
> memory can be saved by using a vpls style approach, but if I got 1536k VMs
> with unique and Mac addresses I'm still able to manage them via qfabric?
> Public docs does not clarify enough this aspects. Thanks for your answer!
>
>
You do realise that you are talking about approximately 1,5000,000 MAC
addresses in your network in a flat any-to-any topology and not about 1,500
or 15,000 MAC addresses ?

This is how QFabric does MAC learning and forwarding:
http://blog.ipspace.net/2011/09/qfabric-part-3-forwarding.html

Regards,
Eugeniu