I havea BPS 2000 stack where the trunk ports are filtering a lot of packets. I have done some research on Nortel's site, but all I can find is that this means packets are not being forwarded. Is there any way I can tell why they are being filtered? We are running v. 3.1.4 code. There is only 1 vlan on the switch and no QoS running. Thanks
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Filtered packets
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jimbopalmer
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I am guessing that the BPS is uplinked to another switch in the same subnet.
On my 450, if I have two switches in the same subnet, then some traffic is local to just ports on the one switch.
if Switch A sees a MAC address it does not know, it will FLOOD that packet to all ports, until it finds which port it belongs to.
If Switch B does know that that MAC address is not on or beyond Switch B, it will filter it out. (it is sometimes odd that Switch B remembers this when Switch A does not, but the number of addresses each can and are remembering can vary. I often get filtered packets from lesser switches))
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
On my 450, if I have two switches in the same subnet, then some traffic is local to just ports on the one switch.
if Switch A sees a MAC address it does not know, it will FLOOD that packet to all ports, until it finds which port it belongs to.
If Switch B does know that that MAC address is not on or beyond Switch B, it will filter it out. (it is sometimes odd that Switch B remembers this when Switch A does not, but the number of addresses each can and are remembering can vary. I often get filtered packets from lesser switches))
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
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