Mac addres table limitations?

Hello!

What does mac address table size mean?

We are using now this very basic machine to route everyting on our server
network
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=v...id=38&pid=1367

Now we noticed that our firewall says that it has over 5000 conections to
out world, mainly from that server network. Is that Switch a botle neck to
our network?

What do you recomend to be used as on online Switch on server network(24/7)
where there are one www-cluster with two IIS, two sql servers, 2 email
servers and 3 other older ones with nameservices. And wiht over 5000
connections at the same time, bandwith to outher word is only 20
megabytes....


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"TLehtinen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello!
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> What does mac address table size mean?

The size of the table used to store mac (physical) addresses.
These will also be removed after a period of time with no activity.
So this is a dynamic table
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> We are using now this very basic machine to route everyting on our server
> network
>
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=v...id=38&pid=1367
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> Now we noticed that our firewall says that it has over 5000 conections to
> out world, mainly from that server network. Is that Switch a botle neck to
> our network?

Connections are actualy ports being used. One Mac address can have multiple
ports opened.
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> What do you recomend to be used as on online Switch on server
network24/7)

A cisco or HP, or juniper switch if you want a good quality product.

> where there are one www-cluster with two IIS, two sql servers, 2 email
> servers and 3 other older ones with nameservices. And wiht over 5000
> connections at the same time, bandwith to outher word is only 20
> megabytes....

Some of those 5000 ports may be just in a listen state.
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