You pose an interesting question wrt what the default should be.
I don't have that answer. On the same token, unknown unicast flooding is 
required for certain topologies to work - campus networks come to mind.
...Your network, you decide based on your topology what to leave-enabled and 
what to disable.

./Randy






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> From: Mike <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2014 4:34 PM
>Subject: [c-nsp] wisdom of switchport block ...
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>
>Hello,
>
>    I am looking at tightening up my subscriber access network and, if I 
>understand the documentation correctly, 'switchport block unicast' will 
>prevent a cisco switch (3560g in this case) from flooding unicast frames out 
>any port so configured, unless the destination mac address was learned from 
>that port. Is there any reason on earth why I would NOT want to have this as a 
>standard default option? Arp would still work, as would dhcp and pppoe... 
>trying to fathom how this could be bad? Would appreciate any insights!
>
>Thank you.
>
>Mike-
>
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