[j-nsp] qfabric 1536k mac address?

[Robert J. Huey]

If the QFabric controllers can do anything it's scale up the number of MACs that can be learned across the fabric.  Their solution was novel before SDN and I guess it's to their credit that they are not trying to market the QFabric that way now ;) 

rgds,
   --r 


On Jan 2, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen at imacandi.net> wrote:

> 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
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