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Re: Force update Switch Address Table.

To: <cjramos@xxxxxxxxxxx>,<lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Force update Switch Address Table.
From: "Jacob Coby" <jcoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:14:02 -0500
> Is there any way to force the switch to refresh MAC Address Table?, is
> there any Linux tool that sent any kind of packet over the net forcing
> the ARP Table to be updated?

Have you tried 'arping' with the unsolicited '-U' option?  My switches and
router would take several minutes to get the new arp unless I used arping.
After that, I was able to move IP addresses around with about 30 seconds of
downtime.

-Jacob

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