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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Command Reference—Release8.4
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Chapter2 Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and ROM Monitor Commands set pbf vlan
set pbf vlan
To create policy-based forward (PBF) Layer 2 CAM entries on a VLAN, use the set pbf vlan command.
set pbf vlan vlan
Syntax Description
Defaults This command has no default settings.
Command Types Switch command.
Command Modes Privileged.
Usage Guidelines
Note Specifying the PBF MAC address on a VLAN is only required on the Supervisor Engine 720 with PFC3.
This command creates PBF Layer 2 CAM entries on the VLANs that you specif y. Packets matching these
entries are classified as Layer 3 packets. The Layer 2 entries are created only if the PBF MAC address
is set using the set pbf mac command before entering the set pbf vlan command.
Using the clear pbf command does not clear the VLANs enabled for PBF. The clear pbf command does clear
the Layer 2 table entries associated with the VLANs (because the MAC address is no longer valid). You must
explicitly clear the PBF-enabled VLANs to remove them from NVRAM by entering the clear pbf vlan
vlan_list command.
You can specify a range of VLANs in the CLI.
In the example below, the message “Operation Successful” indicates that the PBF MAC address was
saved in NVRAM.
Examples This example shows how to specify the PBF MAC address on VLANs 11 and 12:
Console> (enable) set pbf vlan 11-12
Console> (enable) PBF enabled on vlan(s) 11-12.
Operation successful.
Console> (enable)
Related Commands clear pbf vlan
set pbf
show pbf
vlan VLAN number.