MAC Address table

The MAC Address table on a node is used to store the address-pairs of other network nodes - that is, the IEEE/MAC address and network address of each of these nodes. The entries in the MAC Address table are referenced from entries of both the Neighbor table and Address Map table. Therefore, the MAC Address table should be sized according to the combined sizes of the Neighbor table and Address Map table.

The default size of the MAC Address table is 36, but the size can be changed through the parameter Maximum Number of Nodes. The MAC Address table is fully persisted in Flash. Therefore, increasing the size of this table impacts both RAM and Flash usage.

Parent topic:Table configuration guidelines