Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 6648 Switch User Manual


 
Unknown Destination
OmniSwitch Troubleshooting Guide September 2005 page -37
The Coronado ASIC
The Coronado receives the packet via the FBUS.
The Coronado then strips the 802.1q header that was added on ingress, if needed.
The Catalina ASIC
Packet is then put on to the Xybus to be received by the Catalina.
Catalina Egress will generate the CRC and regulate the packet framing including the interpacket gap.
The above delivers the first few packets of a flow that has an unknown destination via the flood queue.
Traffic is Being Passed; the Switch is Attempting to Put a
Correct L2 DA Entry on the NI
The Coronado ASIC
Ingress Coronado sends IPC messages to all active Coronados on the BBUS inquiring about the desti-
nation address. All the active Coronados look into their L2SA table and if they have a matching entry
then they sends the Group ID, Mac address, QID, PDI, and request for additional L3/L4 lookups to the
Ingress Coronado.
Once this information is put into the L2 DA table of the ingress Coronado, the packets are processed as
a known DA and are no longer put on the flood queue.