Celejar put forth on 9/6/2010 8:42 PM: > I'm curious; especially for the cheap switches, why would they need to > store so many MAC addresses? What's the use case for a cheap switch > actually seeing thousands of MACs since 'boot'?
Scenario: I work for a huge company that has 7,000 employees in a single campus, with more than that many PCs, Servers, printers, etc, each having a MAC address. I'm doing layer 2 switching campus wide, and only routing at the network edge to/from the internet/wan provider. I'm in a tech lab, and I need to jack in a small switch for testing servers. People all over the campus are going to need to hit the test servers. Thus, this little 8 port switch in my lab needs to be able to store more than 7,000 mac addresses. Maybe not the best scenario, but it's a valid one. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
