- Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Owner's Manual

98 CLI Basics

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-table aging-time command" (page 99)

•

"default mac-address-table aging-time command" (page 99)

show mac-address-table command

The show mac-address-table command displays the current contents

of the MAC address forwarding database table. The syntax for the show

mac-address-table command is:

show mac-address-table [vid <1-4094>] [aging-time] [port

<LINE>][address <H.H.H> {include | exclude <pattern>}]

The show mac-address-table command 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

and variables

Description

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

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

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