Gary flynn wrote:
>
> 1) Broadcast packets are forwarded and thus read back through the
> same port. This registers that port in the MAC table for all
> MAC addresses that send broadcast traffic. Hence, you wouldn't
> see traffic for MACs that don't send broadcast traffic (few
> and far between, eh?) and you might lose the ability to see
> traffic after a timeout following a broadcast flushes the MAC
> from the table.
Although once it was forwarding normal traffic it wouldn't be dependant
on broadcasts so it would never time out! :)
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Gary Flynn
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James Madison University
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