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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote: > thanks! this approaches reassuring. why does it tolerate 100 > macs? at first blush, i would think three or four would be a > bad enough sign. It's a balance to avoid unduly penalising a genuine mistake, or being too severe against some poor guy with a router which is still forwarding but has an interface in it's death throes (and is occasionally generating bursts of crap frames), and making his problems even worse. In our experience, you either see a handful of macs caused by there being a shakily configured switch-router attached, a slightly larger number of macs caused by something being broken, or a couple of hundred due to either a physical loop being applied or leaking other vlans (true badness). It's also a relatively sensible default when you apply the "restrict" behaviour. Cheers, Mike
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