Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Finding MAC addresses

8 Address Finder

9.Click Attached Port Properties to launch the Port Properties dialog box for the device.

NOTE

The Attached Port Properties button is only supported for Network OS devices.

The Ports tab of the VCS Properties dialog box displays with the attached ports highlighted.

10.Click Close to close the Address Finder dialog box.

Finding MAC addresses

NOTE

MAC address search is supported on Network OS products running 2.1.0 or later.

To find a MAC address, Address Finder searches the learned MAC address tables of each device that is in the database. To find a IP address, refer to “Finding IP addresses” on page 302.

To find a MAC address, complete the following steps.

1.Click the IP tab.

2.Select Tools > Address Finder.

The Address Finder dialog box displays.

FIGURE 128 Address Finder dialog box

3.Select the MAC Address option and enter the address in hexadecimal characters in the field. You can use any of the following methods to separate the characters in the address:

•Hyphens (for example: aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff)

•Periods (for example: aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff)

•Colons (for example: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff)

•Spaces (for example: aa bb cc dd ee ff)

•No spaces (for example: aabbccddeeff)

To find more than one address, use question marks as wildcard characters (for example: aa-bb-cc-dd-??-??).

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