Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Status and Counters Data

Determining Whether a Specific Device Is Connected to the Selected

Port. Proceeding from step 2, above:

1.Press [S] (for Search), to display the following prompt:

Enter MAC address: _

2.Type the MAC address you want to locate and press [Enter]. The address is highlighted if found. If the switch does not find the address, it leaves the MAC address listing empty.

3.Press [P] (for Prev page) to return to the previous per-port listing.

CLI Access for MAC Address Views and Searches

Syntax: show mac-address

[ vlan < vlan-id >] [< port-list >]

[< mac-addr >]

To List All Learned MAC Addresses on the Switch, with The Port

Number on Which Each MAC Address Was Learned.

ProCurve> show mac-address

 

To List All Learned MAC Addresses on one or more ports, with Their

 

Corresponding Port Numbers.

For example, to list the learned MAC

 

address on ports A1 through A4 and port A6:

 

ProCurve> show mac-address a1-a4,a6

 

To List All Learned MAC Addresses on a VLAN, with Their Port

 

Numbers. This command lists the MAC addresses associated with the ports

 

for a given VLAN. For example:

 

 

ProCurve> show mac-address vlan 100

 

 

N o t e

The switches coveredinthisguide operate with a multiple forwarding database

 

architecture.

 

 

 

 

To Find the Port On Which the Switch Learned a Specific MAC Address. For example, to find the port on which the switch learns a MAC address of 080009-21ae84:

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