| 摘要 |
The invention relates to a switch, in particular to an Ethernet switch (10), comprising: a processing unit (14) for processing learning requests for learning Media Access Control, MAC, addresses of forward flows (1). The switch (10) further comprises: a learning request ranking unit (12) for attributing priorities (Prio0 to Prio3) to the learning requests (4) of the forward flows (1) in dependence of flow rates of corresponding backward flows, higher priorities (Prio0 to Prio3) being attributed to learning requests (4) of forward flows (1) with corresponding backward flows having higher flow rates, and a scheduling unit (13) for scheduling the processing of the learning requests (4) in the processing unit (14) in dependence of the attributed priorities (Prio0 to Prio3). The invention further relates to a network (11) comprising at least one switch (10) of the type described above, as well as to a method for learning MAC addresses, and to a computer program product for implementing the method.
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