We use a multicast based load sharing cluster and you definitely must create static ARP and CAM entries for this to work properly and I believe you must also disable IGMP snooping. Cisco will not accept ARP response with I/G bit set...
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Are multicast MAC addresses allowed in the source field? On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The I/G bit must be cleared in the source address of an Ethernet frame. > > Ref: IEEE 802.3-2002, Section 3.2.3(b) I'm finding out more about what this firewall vendor is actually trying to do. From what I can gather, it's based on Microsoft Network Load Balancing and it requires static MAC address table and ARP entries. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configuration _example09186a0080a07203.shtml#mm _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
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