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Posted by Walter Roberson on May 28, 2008, 10:14 am
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>Can any-body please explain the hashing algorithm used in layer 2
>switch controller .. for finding enteries in side ARL (or ATU )
>table...
>as mac address and VID are used and then by a hashing algorith an
>index is generated which is the key for finding appropriate entery
>from ATU or mac address table....
Some systems might implement it that way. I don't recall ever having
seen anything indicating that there was a -requirement- to do things
that way. For example it would be fine for a system to use
Content Addressible Memory (CAM) instead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory
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