On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:14, Amit Kucheria wrote: > Now I am going to try and come up with a way to force the switch to > learn all interface-port mappings before starting my experiment. Maybe a > simple ping between the two machines originating from both sides should > solve the problem. If fact, you don't have to ping from both sides since when you ping a machine, it is expected that it will answer back else the machine is down/unreachable. Now, this might not be a cure it all. I can't be positively sure but I suspect that entries are periodically flushed from the forwarding table after behing "idle" for some times, as ARP entries. So, a periodic ping between the two machines should do, unless there is a way to "statically" populate the switch forwarding table. > Thanks for that elaborate explanation. You're welcome. Danny - : 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
