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Re: Force update Switch Address Table.

To: cjramos@xxxxxxxxxxx,<lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Force update Switch Address Table.
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:32:07 -0500
"Carlos J. Ramos" wrote:
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> We are facing an issue against an HP Procurve Switch 2124,

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> As
> the switch documentation saids, the switch automatically learn MAC
> address and associate it to its ports, so that although heartbeat
> changes IP address, the switch try to use the same switch port, and this
> situation remains for at least 1 hour.

yow!. arp timeouts are 30sec - 2mins on most (unix) machines.

So you can't change the port on the switch that you use for a cable either?

This sounds broken to me (maybe "broken by design"). Does HP have a cure?

Joe

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Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization
SAIC, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007
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