Hitesh Pathak R wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> Need your help in setting up the following :-
>
> SETUP :- There are 2 core switches SW1 & Sw2 (connected back to back with
> both
> the SUP GE ports Fiber uplink (Channeld and trunk). On one of the switch
> (SW1)
> I have 2 firewalls connected in cluster mode. For this clustered 
> firewall  I
> have bind the multicast mac address on the switch SW1 as the recommended
> method by the firewall vendor by the command (set cam permanent ).
>
> Now the problem faced here is since they have only bind the mac 
> address to 2
> ports on SW1 (switch one ONLY) there seems to be some multicast packets
> flooding on my  second core switch SW2 for that multicast address.
>
> The customer wants to stop this broadcast from hapening on 2nd switch 
> SW2 and
> hence wants to bind the same multicast mac address on the 2nd Switch 
> with the
> trunk ports going to SW1 from SW2.
>
> Has anybody faced similar situation ?? Is this configuration 
> supported. Can I
> bind the cam entry to my trunk port on the SW2 as well with the same
> multicast
> mac address??
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Thanks
> Hitesh
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is it a checkpoint FWs cluster?




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