I have seen similar situation where a host had 2 interfaces on the same subnet, each with different IP on that subnet. Host was preferring to send traffic(sourced from both of its IPs) out of only one of the interfaces. Hence source mac of the second interface was never learned and was unicast flooded.

On 8/22/2011 8:15 AM, Chuck Church wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:05 PM
To: Chuck Church
Cc: NSP - Cisco
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ARP oddness

Unicast flooding?  You didn't say if the destination MAC address was
known on the switch or no..

Lee


I'm starting to think this is unicast flooding now.  Noticed this just now:
VLAN0001 is executing the ieee compatible Spanning Tree protocol
   Bridge Identifier has priority 24576, sysid 1, address 001d.453d.f300
   Configured hello time 2, max age 20, forward delay 15
   We are the root of the spanning tree
   Topology change flag set, detected flag set
   Number of topology changes 913 last change occurred 15:02:50 ago
           from GigabitEthernet3/38
   Times:  hold 1, topology change 35, notification 2
           hello 2, max age 20, forward delay 15
   Timers: hello 0, topology change 22, notification 0, aging 15

  That 'topology change flag set' never seems to go away, despite the last
change timer getting up into the hours timeframe now.  I'm not sure why this
STP doesn't seem to want to iron itself out.  I'm going to have our vendor
move this to RSTP, which is our standard.  Still, not sure why it's doing
this, unless a device is constantly sending out TCNs?

Chuck
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