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 is supported only on platform: 

e

 

Station-move detection takes 5000ms because this is the interval at which the detection algorithm runs. On 
the E-Series, you can reduce detection time to as little as 500ms using the command 

 

 (though at the expense of CPU resources).

 is the number of times a station move must be detected in a single interval in order to trigger a 

system log message. For example, if you configure 

 

 

, and 4 station moves occur in 5000ms, then two log messages are generated.

e

 

Microsoft Clustering allows multiple servers using Microsoft Windows to be represented by one MAC 
address and IP address in order to provide transparent failover or balancing. FTOS does not recognize 
server clusters by default; it must be configured to do so.

When an ARP request is sent to a server cluster, either the active server or all of the servers send a reply, 
depending on the cluster configuration. If the active server sends a reply, the Dell Force10 switch learns the 
active server’s MAC address. If all servers reply, the switch registers only the last received ARP reply, and 
the switch learns one server’s actual MAC address (

learned.

MAC:  A:B

A:B:C:D

IP:  1.1.1.1

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X

Port 0/1

Port 0/5

Move MAC
address

Active Link

mac-address-table station-move refresh-arp
configured at time of NIC teaming