Also if the table is full it will act as a hub for any mac not in the table.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Niels Bakker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Thu Feb 02 14:51:59 2006
To:     foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject:        Re: [f-nsp] FES9604 Packets "Leaking"

* clayton at mnsi.net (Clayton Zekelman) [Thu 02 Feb 2006, 21:25 CET]:
>I have a situation where it appears that for some reason, the switch 
>starts flooding all traffic to all ports on a VLAN - both tagged and 
>untagged.  It does this for a few seconds then stops.

All traffic, or only for selected destination MACs?  Switches do that by
design when a MAC address has timed out from the MAC table.  Or for all 
traffic when someone does "clear mac", of course.


        -- Niels.

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