Leslie, I’ve forwarded your question
to our router guru.
The key difference is that ARP cache is a
media layer mechanism for tying an IP address to a MAC address. What you are
asking about is tying a bridge number to a MAC address i.e. this bridge has
knowledge of this MAC address on this segment number. When he gives me an
answer I’ll post it.
From:
owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of Leslie Clark
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
2:49 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] dot1dbridge
Can anyone tell me the proper terminology to use when
asking a Cisco guy to change the age-out time for the forwarding table in the
dot1dBridge mib? They think I am talking about the arp cache, but I am not. For
Switch Analyzer it is recommended to increase the value from the default of 300
seconds to 900 seconds, and I can tell them the mib variable, but I cannot give
them the command in Cisco-ese.
For
clarity, the mib variable is:
iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.dot1dBridge.dot1dTp.dot1dTpAgingTime
.1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.2
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit