> > If a host has two > > NICs connected to two switches,(the two switches are connected > > together) and load balancing between them, switch will see the same > > source MAC from two ports. How does a switch decide which ports to > > put in the forwarding table? Would it switch back and forth every > > time there is a packet? Is there any negative effect on the switch > > when that happens?
+1 If this is happening, something is misconfigured. Some switching platforms (Cat 4K CatOS is one) will stop forwarding the flapping MAC's traffic for some time with each recurrence of the MAC-FLAP notification. /chris _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
