On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Karl Fife wrote:
> Answering my own question:
>
> Unicast flooding is fundamental. Unicast flooding in response to a null
> switching table is the only way for a frame to reach the intended host, say,
> if the switching table had an entry which expired before it
Answering my own question:
Unicast flooding is fundamental. Unicast flooding in response to a null
switching table is the only way for a frame to reach the intended host,
say, if the switching table had an entry which expired before it could
be re-populated with the host's arp reply.
On 8/
Hey all. I'm trying to get to the bottom of an Ethernet concept:
If an Ethernet switch has no switching/forwarding table entry for a
given MAC, does it flood/broadcast BY DESIGN (e.g. to behave like a good
old-fashioned Ethenet HUB) or is unicast flooding an accidental
characteristic of the w
