Re: CAM TABLE

but ... how many cam tables can possibly be in a switch ?????????

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:00 PM, David Rothera <david.rothera_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> It varies platform to platform and the CAM table contains the VLAN ID. If
> you look at the mac-address table you will see the basic layout of the CAM
> table.
>
> David
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> On 3 Mar 2013, at 17:38, Faisal Ilyas <faisal.learning_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Salam,
> >
> > I see in a training vid that its likely 50,000 MAC addresses per CAM per
> > Switch,
> >
> > so, how many cam tables can possibly be in a switch, and if we create
> > multiple vlans does switch maintain a single CAM table and just put the
> > number of vlan as a addon field in that CAM ???
> >
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