On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Schouten, Diederik (Diederik) wrote: > Ugly network design. But possible, for that you will need multiple switches, > on their trunk ports they need to be capable of handling that ammount of > MAC's anyway. > > I would say that is a network design flaw.
So would I, but then I consider a LOT of things people do network design flaws :) > Cheap > Fast > Secure/Redundant > > pick 2. More like pick 1! > > The point however was that in low-latency failover scenerios, it may be > > advantageous to have level of control if the gateway needs to ARP more > > than one address if it doesn't get an answer imeediately due to load, a > > downed system, etc. > > Sorry, I can't follow you. What setup are you thinking of? If I have a firewall that's aware of multiple servers or gateways, and who switches to a different one, based on how long it takes to get an ARP reply then having control over how quickly/often ARPs are broadcast via the firewall can be very advantageous (it's amazing what some people will do to create failover or load balancing scenerios, isn't it?) Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
