> First, regarding Carp and STP what happens usually in a manageable L2
> switch when the same MAC is announced on two different ports ?
Switches often remember which ports a MAC was seen on, not which
MACs were seen on each port. Not what you might first expect, but
I think the common failover pr
Thanks Jason for the details. I'm quite good from L3 and up, but I still never
had to understand so much about L2 ;-))
> The problem you will/may encounter will differ based on the vendor of
> SWITCH1 and SWITCH2. Some vendors will handle it OK if the MAC is a
> multicast MAC, some will log a wa
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Sylvain Coutant wrote:
> First, regarding Carp and STP what happens usually in a manageable L2
> switch when the same MAC is announced on two different ports ? I don't
> remember that STP includes loadsharing, so isn't it possible the switch
> will only choose one port to forwa
Hi gurus,
I'm working on a project where carp loadbalancing firewalls could exactly fit
our needs. Before that, I wonder how it will work outside of the OpenBSD boxes.
First, regarding Carp and STP what happens usually in a manageable L2 switch
when the same MAC is announced on two different po
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