On 20/12/2017 10:24, Saku Ytti wrote: > On 20 December 2017 at 00:13, NK NSP <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Hardware Resource exhaustion" comes into mind for keeping shorter value >> for MAC Table. Keeping the value high enough can bite you when there is a >> flood of traffic from random sources. > This argument seems improbable, possibly entirely wrong. > > [...] > Maybe with other numbers and assumptions we can find advantage in > higher MAC timeout, but I am having hard time figuring where larger > MAC timeout makes the device less vulnerable to CAM exhaustion. [...]
Well i think if you re-read NK's sentence you will find out that he is saying the same thing as you ;) _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

