Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 11 May 2003 00:55:28 -0500 (CDT) | From | Xinwen Fu <> | Subject | it is a lab environment |
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Chuck, > > > The switching table is > > messed up by the intense traffic, we believe. Other cheaper switches > > (netgear fast esthernet switch FS108 ) have the same problem. > > What do you mean by "intense traffic?" Many switches will get > confused if you fill their tables with a large number of different > addresses. Is someone maybe spoofing MAC addresses on your net? > Or is the switch plugged into a larger switched network where it will > see many different MAC addresses on the uplink port?
By Intense traffic I mean that the traffic on one path through the switch is a little more than 10mb/s.
My testing enviroment is an isolated lab environment. I only use 4 ports and the uplink port is not used. Each of the 4 ports is connected to one ethernet card. That is why I concluded that the 10mb/s traffic is intense since for the first 5 minutes the switch is a switch and then becomes a hub.
As I said, I used a little expensive swicth (also auto-sensing dumb one) and solved the problem. That is why I concluded a very cheap swicth (<$100) may be not good in some scenarios. Of course for household use, it is definitely a good choice.
Xinwen Fu P.S. I only intend to provide some information and all my testing is for a rigid academic objective.
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