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Chapter 4 Administering the Switch
Managing the MAC Address Table
Figure 4-2 Disabling MAC Address Learning: Point-to-Point Links
Network Load Balancers

In this topology, you have two devices, one active and one standby. To perform load balancing, both

devices must receive all packets. You could place both devices on the same VLAN. If learning can be

disabled on this VLAN, the packet is flooded and both devices receive all traffic destined to any MAC

address on the VLAN. You also can assign a multicast MAC address to both load balancers to ensure

that all packets reach them. (Figure 4-3).

Figure 4-3 Disabling MAC Address Learning: Network Load Balancers
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