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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference—Release IOS XE 3.3.0XO(15.1(1)XO)
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Chapter 2 Cisco IOS Commands for the Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
traceroute mac
This example shows the Layer 2 path when the source and destination switches belong to multiple
VLANs:
Switch# traceroute mac 0000.0201.0601 0000.0201.0201
Error:Mac found on multiple vlans.
Layer2 trace aborted.
Switch#
This example shows how to display the Layer 2 path by specifying the interfaces on the source and
destination switches:
Switch# traceroute mac interface fastethernet0/1 0000.0201.0601 interface fastethernet0/3 0000.0201.0201
Source 0000.0201.0601 found on con6[WS-C2950G-24-EI] (2.2.6.6)
con6 (2.2.6.6) :Fa0/1 =>Fa0/3
con5 (2.2.5.5 ) : Fa0/3 =>Gi0/1
con1 (2.2.1.1 ) : Gi0/1 =>Gi0/2
con2 (2.2.2.2 ) : Gi0/2 =>Fa0/1
Destination 0000.0201.0201 found on con2[WS-C3550-24] (2.2.2.2)
Layer 2 trace completed
Switch#
Related Commands Command Description
traceroute mac ip D isplays the Layer 2 path that is taken by the packets f rom
the specified source IP address or hostname to the specified
destination IP address or hostname.