[j-nsp] Multicast/Broadcast Packets going to EX CPU

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Keegan Holley <no.spam at comcast.net> [2014-03-05 18:33]:
> I agree.  It’s more likely that you had an increase in packets that
> the switch would process normally than the switch getting bored and
> suddenly deciding to read packets off the wire.  If there is an IP
> interface on the network that the broadcast/multicast packets
> traverse, the switch must read them just like every other IP enabled
> host.  This will even happen for tagged frames if there is a VLAN
> interface that matches the tag.

Yes there was a flood of BOOTP/DHCP packets in one VLAN that caused
the problems. The thing is: This should not be a problem in my mind
because the switch has no reason to look at these packets (the switch
has no l3-interface in the VLAN). So I can't imagine I'm the only one
facing this issue.

Regards

Sebastian

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