[Bridge] Re: unidirectional traffic and flooding

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:19:06 +0200 "Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose there is a unidirectional traffic only (for instance UDP) to one of > the devices connected to a bridge. At the beginning, the bridge will learn > the location of this device from gracious ARP. Howe

[Bridge] unidirectional traffic and flooding

Suppose there is a unidirectional traffic only (for instance UDP) to one of the devices connected to a bridge. At the beginning, the bridge will learn the location of this device from gracious ARP. However, after the timeout the bridge will forget this information and since there is no traffic from