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 ;)
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