On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:43:38 -0500 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
... > A traditional el cheapo desktop 8 port ethernet switch, such as the $10 > Rosewill 10/100 switch on my desk, has a single simple 8x8 crossbar > switch ASIC, enough RAM to store 8192 MAC addresses, and possibly a ... > The larger switch ASICs cost far more than those in $10 eight port > switches, have more memory for storing MAC addresses, and have extensive I'm curious; especially for the cheap switches, why would they need to store so many MAC addresses? What's the use case for a cheap switch actually seeing thousands of MACs since 'boot'? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100906214237.da06e888.cele...@gmail.com
