Re: unswitched behavior of a switched network...

From: Nicob (nicob@nicob.net)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2006 - 15:44:23 EDT


Le vendredi 13 octobre 2006 à 09:32 -0700, Jon Hart a écrit :

> Furthermore, even if the entries were expired, has anyone encountered
> situations (malicious or otherwise), where a given port will receive
> traffic outside of its own L2?

I recently see that on a Cisco Catalyst 6500 L3 swith with an up to date
IOS image. On some ports of a Gigabit slot, we sometimes see unicast
trafic of others VLAN or destinated to other IP addresses of the same
VLAN.

I wasn't able to explain this behaviour, it could be a hardware problem.

Nicob

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