Unicast Flooding

Thu Jun 18 18:45:45 UTC 2009

Relying on a TCN would yield very inconsistent results.

Lee wrote:
> On 6/18/09, Brian Shope <blackwolf99999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for all the good info..
>>
>> So it sounds like changing my CAM timeout to 4 hours is the best
>> suggestion.  Anyone have any problems when implementing this?
>>     
>
> Not as long as all the user ports have portfast enabled.  Without
> portfast, when a port goes up or down it causes a topology change
> notification which sets the fast aging timer and the cam table entries
> age out in something like 15 seconds.
>
> Regards,
> Lee
>
>   

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