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[gmans111]

I noticed DGS-1224T was sending traffic some to all ports (like a hub), rather than switching.  The destination(s) are missing from the mac-address-table.

When I count total number of entries in dynamic mac-address-table, it constantly hovers around 500.  It NEVER goes over 512.  Is this the max it can handle?  512 entries?

Under 'Specifications', it claims Mac Address Table Size is 8K.  (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DGS-1224T)

[Fatman]

umm this doesn't sound right.  I am going to look into this for you.

[lizzi555]

8K = 8192 Byte
1 MAC = 16 Byte
8192 / 16 = 512 entries

Looks ok 

[Fatman]

OK, I have managed a little bit of testing so far, and I am still waiting on an officious answer.  What HW and FW rev are you using?

I realize you were being light hearted, but I feel compelled to add that MAC Addresses are 48 bits (6 Bytes) long, that's not to say that a line in an ARP table wouldn't be 16 Bytes long, though I don't know for certain how long they would be for this product.

[gmans111]

I have a whole bunch of these switches (about half are still sitting in my cube), but the particular one that prompted my post is hardware version D2, firmware 4.21.01.

Thanks for looking into this.

[gmans111]

Hate to be a pest, but... any more news?

I'm more than willing to test-drive debug/development firmware, if that helps.

I need to get past 512 entries.  I temporarily replaced this switch with another brand/model to verify that I've got ~890 mac addresses out there.

Thank you.

[Fatman]

I have not been able to recreate your results.  I was using a full 1500 addresses in my tests without failure.

My apologies for the delay, I thought I had already posted as much in this thread.

[Fatman]

Also, I think it would be interesting to get you to call in so they can make sure we don't have any obvious problems, then they can get your hardware swapped (and if the tech is any good he will have your switch shipped to HQ for testing).

[gmans111]

All of my DGS-1224T's are currently out-of-service, pending our findings with this issue.  Soon as I can muster, I'll slip a different unit into the network to see if it behaves any differently.  Stay tuned.

Meanwhile... I had another thought.

I was using snmp to count the number of entries in mac-address-table.  Can you please test that too (using your 1500 address setup)?

$ snmpwalk -v2c -c public <hostname> .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.2 | wc -l

Maybe I'm jumping to a conclusion by combining two different symptoms?
   1.  Unexplained traffic sent to all ports
   2.  SNMP dot1dTpFdbPort only displays upto 512 entries