This is true. But here is a scenario we are seeing. Here is our setup first. Customer is on Vlan4 which is bridged to VLAN10. Both vlan's are on the same switch. If data is streaming in on vlan10 to the vlan4 bridge, then we switch the customer to vlan10, the streaming data will continue on to the bridge server and the customer will not be able to transfer data until that stream dies or if the timer just happens to be expiring for that MAC. So we need to clear the mac. I did a brctl setageing 3 to set the timer lower. But what effect could this have when I have some 50k to 100k mac's known by the bridging server? Thanks, Brad Dameron Clearw're Network Engineer TierII ________________________________ From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger at linux-foundation.org] Sent: Fri 1/26/2007 9:09 PM To: Brad Dameron Cc: bridge at lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [Bridge] Clear a mac from table? On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:30:05 -0800 Brad Dameron <brad.dameron at clearwire.com> wrote: > > Anyone know of a way to clear a mac from the bridge hash table instead > of waiting for it to expire? This would be handy with pushing people > between vlans that are on the same switch. No API exists but the first transmit (gratuitous ARP?) would move the entry. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20070127/b09cdcfc/attachment.htm
