Nortel Networks 2500 Series manual Managing MAC address forwarding database table

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Managing MAC address forwarding database table

This section describes the commands to view the contents of the MAC address forwarding database table, as well as setting the age-out time for the addresses. The following topics are covered:

•"show mac-address-table command" (page 98)

•"mac-address-tableaging-time command" (page 99)

•"default mac-address-tableaging-time command" (page 99)

show mac-address-table command

The show mac-address-tablecommand displays the current contents of the MAC address forwarding database table. The syntax for the show mac-address-tablecommand is:

show mac-address-table [vid <1-4094>] [aging-time] [port <LINE>][address <H.H.H> {include exclude <pattern>}]

The show mac-address-tablecommand is executed in the Privileged EXEC command mode.

Table 15 "show mac-address-table command parameters and variables" (page 98) describes the parameters and variables for the show mac-address-table command.

Table 15

show mac-address-table command parameters and variables

Parameters	Description
and variables
vid <1-4094>	Enter the number of the VLAN you want to display the
	forwarding database.
	Default is to display the management VLAN’s database.
aging-time	Displays the time in seconds after which an unused
	entry is removed from the forwarding database.
port <LINE>	List of ports.
address <H.H.H>	Displays a specific MAC address if it exists in the
	database. Enter the MAC address you want displayed.
include exclude	Lets you filter the results of the command by printing
<pattern>	only those entries in the address table that include or
	exclude a given pattern. The value for <pattern>
	must be a sequence of 1 to 6 bytes in hex, separated
	by dashes.
	for example: show mac-address-table port
	1/1-5 address include 00-0E-45-23

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series

Overview — System Configuration

NN47215-500 (323162-B) 02.02 Standard

4.1 19 November 2007

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