[CentOS] OT - odd behavior of Cisco switch

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:19 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If one of your hosts intermittently loses connectivity, the switch will
> broadcast that traffic to all ports because it can't find the host's MAC
> address.
>
> (And what Les said about the switch broadcasting traffic until it learns
> MAC addresses.)

Some spanning tree events will force the switch to re-learn MACs too.

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   Les Mikesell
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