Unknown new s-series feature: V8.62 "control-frame-learning disable" ?

[M_Nees]

2 weeks ago a new s-series firmware was going public.

Release Notes tell me the following new feature:

which kind of "control-frames" can be disabled from learning? In what szenario will help me that function?

Unfortunately no manual for V8.62 is available! No KB Article, nothing that will explain that feature.

Regards

[Alex24]

Hello Matthias,

We will be writing up a article to cover this but in summary this feature disables learning of the source MAC address of frames destined to a 01-80-C2-XX-XX-XX destination MAC. This feature is intended to be used in environments where an EOS switch may have multiple links to a switch that doesn't utilize a unique MAC address per port. This can cause the EOS switch to learn the mac address of the switch on multiple ports including ports that are in a blocking state per spanning tree. There is a possibility that traffic destined to the remote switch MAC address may be dropped if the forwarding database has the MAC address for the remote switch learned on a blocked port where traffic cannot be egressed.

-Alex