Utility Commands
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ProSafe Managed Switch
The following information displays if you do not enter a parameter, the keyword all, or the
MAC address and VLAN ID. If you enter vlan <vlan_id>, only the Mac Address, Interface,
and Status fields appear.
Mac Address
Interface
Interface Index
Status
• Static—The value of the corresponding instance was added by the system or a user
when a static MAC filter was defined. It cannot be relearned.
• Learned—The value of the corresponding instance was learned by observing the
source MAC addresses of incoming traffic, and is currently in use.
• Management—The value of the corresponding instance (system MAC address) is also
the value of an existing instance of dot1dStaticAddress. It is identified with interface
0/1. and is currently used when enabling VLANs for routing.
• Self—The value of the corresponding instance is the address of one of the switch’s
physical interfaces (the system’s own MAC address).
• GMRP Learned—The value of the corresponding was learned via GMRP and applies
to Multicast.
• Other—The value of the corresponding instance does not fall into one of the other
categories.
If you enter the interface <unit/slot/port> parameter, in addition to the MAC
Address and Status fields, the following field appears:
VLAN ID
The following information displays if you enter the count parameter:
Dynamic
Address count
Static Address
(User-defined)
count
Total MAC
Addresses in
use
Total MAC
Addresses
available
Term Definition
A unicast MAC address for which the switch has forwarding and or filtering information.
The format is 6 or 8 two-digit hexadecimal numbers that are separated by colons, for
example 01:23:45:67:89:AB. In an IVL system the MAC address will be displayed as
8 bytes.
The port through which this address was learned.
This object indicates the ifIndex of the interface table entry associated with this port.
The status of this entry. The meanings of the values are:
Term Definition
The VLAN on which the MAC address was learned.
Term Definition
Number of MAC addresses in the forwarding database that were automatically learned.
Number of MAC addresses in the forwarding database that were manually entered by a
user.
Number of MAC addresses currently in the forwarding database.
Number of MAC addresses the forwarding database can handle.