If you need a shorter mac timeout, you can set the mac aging timer to a lower value than the default 300ms timeout
On 20 October 2011 20:28, Sebastian Wiesinger <[email protected]>wrote: > * Phil Bedard <[email protected]> [2011-10-13 02:01]: > > Coming soon to at least one platform, but haven't heard anything about > > Juniper. The active/standby mechanisms work pretty well but > active/active > > using something like SPBM or TRILL would be nicer. > > One problem with active/standby is mac aging on the CE switch(es). > When the primary PE goes down, the backup PE takes over and the > CE-switches learn mac addresses on the link towards the backup PE. > Now when the primary link comes online again, the VPLS on the primary > PE goes active, forcing the standby PE to deactivate VPLS. The CE > switches still have the mac addresses learned on the port to the > standby PE so you have to wait until the mac addresses age out (or a > packet with that source mac comes in from the primary PE). > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > -- > New GPG Key: 0x93A0B9CE (F4F6 B1A3 866B 26E9 450A 9D82 58A2 D94A 93A0 > B9CE) > Old GPG Key-ID: 0x76B79F20 (0x1B6034F476B79F20) > 'Are you Death?' ... IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE > SCYTHE. > -- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > -- Humair _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
