On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Roisman, Dani wrote: > FYI - some swtiches (I know for a fact cisco and 3com will do this) allow > you to place static entries in the mac address table (called "CAM table" in > cisco and "Switch Database" in 3com). > > By doing this you won't need traffic to originate from each host, however if > you move the host to another port on that switch, it will never receive any > traffic. > > Therefore - if you are gonna be in a controlled environment, and do not need > the flexibility of a dynamic and automagic(TM) MAC-addr database, that may > be the solution for you -- provided your switch supports it. Unfortunately, the switch is a no-frills unmanaged switch which will not allow me to do that. I do wish I had one of those, since my testbed is static and it would solve the problem for the duration of the experiments :) Thanks for the information though. Regards, Amit - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
