Avaya Cajun P882 User Manual

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Cajun P550/P880/P882 Switch User Guide

Managing the Address Forwarding Table

6-7

5. Click:

APPLY to save your changes

CANCEL to restore previous settings

Delete All Learned Entries if you want to relearn the entire
table

Delete Invalid Learned Entries if you want to delete all
entries that are currently aged out.

* Note: If you change the Hash Table Size, the switch relearns all

addresses in that table, causing the switch to flood
packets for a few seconds.

Hash Table

Select one of the following hash table parameters:

Note:

Size - Select the size to alter the space available for this

address table. The selection range is 16 addresses to 8192
addresses. The rule of thumb is: Tables with high Total
Bucket Utilization (greater than 75%) can be made
smaller. Tables with low Total Bucket Utilization (less
than 40%) should be made larger.

Note:

The number

of addresses for a given hash table is 4:1 (for example, if
you have a hash table of 16 bytes, the VLAN can hold 64
addresses in it’s table instance. It is recommended that
the hash table size be 1/8th the size of the total number
of addresses for the VLAN.

Auto Increment - Select an option to allow the Hash

tables to grow dynamically larger if more addresses are
discovered. The options are:

True _ Enables auto-increment of the Hash tables.

False - Disables auto-increment to prevent the Hash tables
from growing dynamically at the risk of extra flooding.

Bucket Info

Displays parameters to monitor the efficiency of the hash table
allocations.

Options include:

Count - Indicates the hash table count.

Capacity - Indicates the hash table capacity.

Utilization - High utilization indicates that a larger hash

table is needed.

Table 6-1. Address Table Instance Parameters continued

Parameter

Definition

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