Cisco Switching/Routing :: 6500 Not Showing Mac Address Table
Apr 8, 2013
we have 6500 cisco switch as a backbone switch in universty. When ı want to look mac addres table , it does no show all mac address.ı mean if ı type ;show mac address-table there are not all mac address.
We want to configure the "mac-address-table synchronize" command on our 6500 series switches to ensure that the CAM tables on our DFCs are in synch with the PFC on the supervisor modules. url...it is recommended that we disable the routed MAC purging with the mac-address-table aging-time 0 routed-mac global configuration command. What is a routed mac entry? Are there any issues with running that mac aging-time command?
We also plan to run this command "mac-address-table aging-time 14400" to keep our ARP and CAM tables on the same aging time to reduce unicast flooding on our network. Can we run this command with the "routed-mac" command above?
I am little confused about the location of FIB table and adjacency table in both cisco 6500 series and fixed ports switches .In case of 6500 series switches
"Central CEF mode:The CEF FIB and adjacency tables reside on the route processor,and the route processor performs the express forwarding. Use this CEF mode when line cards are not available for CEF switching, or when features are not compatible with distributed CEF."
If line cards do no support CEF, then FIB and adjacency tables are built and are located on route processor( control plane ). Data plane operations are implemented in software and route processor performs those operations.
Some Cisco switches actually use different hardware to control the different planes. For example, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 is a modular switch that uses the Multilayer Switch.Feature Card (MSFC) for control-plane operations, and the supervisor Policy Feature Card (PFC) for the data-plane operations.
Supervisor module has has MSFC and PFC. MSFC implements control plane operation where as PFC implements data plane operation.But the first paragraph says in Central cef mode, both data plane and control plane operations are implemented by route processor. [code]
Do these switches implement the Central mode cef in same way as mentioned above. i.e
"Central CEF mode:The CEF FIB and adjacency tables reside on the route processor and the route processor performs the express forwarding. Use this CEF mode whenline cards are not available for CEF switching, or when features are not compatible with distributed CEF."Or fixed ports switches such as 3750 implement data plane operation in hardware where FIB tabe and adjacency table are maintained on Data plane.
I volunteer at a school who just purchased two 48 port SGE2010 managed switches. I am not a big fan of the web gui and was hoping to see the standard Cisco command prompt instead of the menu-type interface.
Is there a way to view the MAC table showing which MAC address is plugged into which port on the switch? I have been fighting with the menu and the gui for a while now and do not see this anywhere.
when I do a show module in my cat 6509, the standby sup is saying unknown, it has the same IOS as the primary card. what does this mean? are there any tests I can run on the card?
I have 3750E swiches with IOS v. 12.2(55)SE3. Couple servers connect to ths switch, after ping of IP this servers I can see mac addresses in mac address table.
For instance: sw1#show mac address-table vlan 20 Mac Address Table -------------------------------------------
Vlan Mac Address Type Ports(code) ---- ----------- -------- -----
When ip generate traffic to this server this mac address appear in table again on shot time (less than 10 seconds).
As u see above , the inetrface Gi0/6 , Gi0/7 are connected directly to linux server by two redundent links .
I mean that Gi0/6 is connected to interface0 in linux server and Gi0/7 is connect to interface interface1 in linux server
Gi0/6===>vlan 1 Gi0/7===>vlan 2
each interface of linux server has a different ip and different gateway .
Now from switch, I make ping to interface 0 of linux server and i have a reply , every thing is ok but when i type the command : #sh mac address-table | i Gi0/6
There is no Mac addresses and seems no Mac address relative to Gi0/6, I mean that doesn't it mandatorty to learn the mac address of linux server and write in mac table relative beside interface Gi0/6 ? How I could ping the server but no mac beside Gi0/6 ?
we have cisco WS-C6509-V-E with IOS version 12.2(33)SXI4; s3223_rp_IPSERVICESK9_WAN_M) running on a switch. I am trying to configure the command "mac-address-table synchronize" under global config mode. But when I enter the command Cisco(config)#mac-address-table ?It doesn't show the synchronize option?
I always though that sh mac address table dynamic interface xx/xx/xx was a subset of "sh mac address table" 6590 Version 12.2(33)SXI I have two mac addresses on downstream switches that will only show up when using
sh mac address-table dynamic interface Te4/10 * 903 0050.77a9.6e3c dynamic Yes 0 Te4/10 * 903 0050.77a9.5766 dynamic Yes 0 Te4/10
when using "old faithful"
sh mac address-table | inc 6e3c *nothing*
or
sh mac address-table dynamic | inc 6e3c *nothing*
nothing shows up?this vlan has no layer three interfaces
The customer has 4 6500 switches. 2 Physical locations, and 2 switches at each locations. The locations are connected via 1 200mpbs metro ethernet(layer 2). We ran into an issue during a DR exercise. We had created a VLAN for DR testing purposes, that did not have any SVI configured, but the VLAN did exist on one of the 6500s. When the customer restored a VM to the DR VLAN, we lost connectivity to the production server. After some troubleshooting, we found the cause to be the same mac address showing up, but in a different vlan. Once we removed the DR vlan from the 6500 all was well. It seems like switches are ignoring the VLAN in the mac address table, and forwarding to the incorrect ports. The switch is not reporting any mac flapping in the logs. No spanning tree topology changes are occurring. Code version is 12.2(33)SXJ2 on all switches.
I have an Issue.In my networks, 1 single user is facing Network Slowness issue. i needs to check to which port user is coneected in switch to CHeck whether that port has any errors.But problem is, i am providing support from remote location.And my concern LAN segment is Very big,I have only user Ip address details,when i ping the Ip address from Core switch it is pinging. but when i give show ip arp & give Ip address then its not learning and listing out the Mac address to trace down to the specific port.
I have 2 servers, one active, the other standby, both will be using the same IP. If the active fails then a re-patch for the standby to make this the active. I understand that i will need to clear the arp & maybe mac address table on the 6500 for the new active server to work, as the failed server will have its mac address on the 6500,.
is there a way around this so i dont have to clear the arp cache & clear the mac table? [code]
We are facing issue with mac address learnt from different port-channels, Connectivity is like 6500 as core running VSS and 4500 access switches are connected to Core and WLC is also connected to Core.WLC to 6500 PO 60 , 4500 to 6500 PO 32.
Version 12.2(33)SXI int vlan 1 description client vlan ip vrf forwarding A ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby 129 ip 10.1.1.2 standby 129 timers 1 4 standby 129 priority 105 standby 129 preempt ip helper-address 10.1.2.20
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dhcp requests are not making it to the dhcp server SAME VRF (ip helper-addres is not doing anything.....)extended vrf traceroutes on udp 67 sourced from vlan2 are fine
I am expecting udp unicast packets on port 67 "giaddr" relay packets on the DHCP server generated and sourced by the relay on Vlan1
eg. Mar 1 01:59:06.731: DHCPD: setting giaddr to 10.1.1.1
This exact setup works in our preprod environment with the same code.Only difference is we run Distributed etherchannel on the 6500's where this doesnt work.
Wireshark on the client I can see the requests being sent Going to check it with debug ip dhcp server to check the relay logs out of production hours.
I have seen so many people say it IS and ISN'T supported on this version of the code.e.g. [URL]
I am aware the helper-adddress should inherit the vrf of the interface ip helper-address vrf command is not supported.The fact it works in the PP environment.... could this be due to the Distributed EtherChanel difference? or just some bug....
I have just updated a VLAN interface on my router. I have two 6500's with GLBP configured. The particular interface had a primary and secondary IP address. I shutdown the interface on one router and deleted the secondary address then assigned the orignal secondary address to be the be the only address associated with the interface and enabled the interface and it came right back up...all looks good. I proceeded to do the same thing to the other router and once again all looked good. Now, I am able to PING the devices in the subnet from router, but am unable to ping them from any place else. [code]
I have a Cisco Catalyst 4506-E Swtich,I configure it as a DHCP and gw for the Wireless Cisco AP through the WLC 5508,the DHCP pool reached the maximum limit I run the Show ip dhcp pool (pool name) it's show the below result
GIR906.PCIRQ.DC.CR.1#show ip dhcp pool 406
Pool 406 : Utilization mark (high/low) : 100 / 0 Subnet size (first/next) : 0 / 0 Total addresses : 126 Leased addresses : 76 [Code]....
My comany is planning get full bgp table from our providers we have mutliple egress providers in order to load balance we are looking for a full table from all of them what would be minumu requiremts we have all edges as 6500 with sup 720 ,is there any memory requrements that need to be upgraded ??
In datasheet of WS-SUP720-3B - link- was said that are only supported around 256K routes (fib?rib?).With this value I can't get 2 full bgp - that is around 850K ..
The supervisor is that control this or just memory ? I said this because I have a 7204-npe-g1 whith 2 fullrouting and 1G of and he are ok..
We have a couple of 6500 series switches and have 3 BGP peerings to each. The 6500 series switches are loaded with WS-SUP720-3B Supervisor Engine. I believe there is a limit to the number of IPv4 routes WS-SUP720-3B supports(256,000). We also have "soft-reconfiguration inbound" configured on the BGP peerings. Thus when I do a "show ip bgp A.B.C.D" it displays three routes from 3 BGP peers and it displays an additional 3 "received-only routes" which I think is due to the "soft-reconfiguration inbound" configuration. We currently filter inbound routes from the BGP peers to be between /0 and /27
We are now looking to add another 2 BGP peerings. I am not too sure if the WS-SUP720-3B will be able to handle all the BGP routes. Is this limit of 256,000 IPv4 routes due to Processor memory limitation or is it software related? Would removing the "soft-reconfiguration inbound" save me some memory ?
I just purchased an E4200 router. I have four clients on my network and they are all set up for DHCP. I renewed their IPs and they all are connected. "Cisco Connect" reports that I have four clients connected. When I access the router and bring up the DHCP Client Table, there are no entries. There should be four entries. Aftern I enable the logging function, none of the logs have any data in them even after I wait for 45 minutes and use the internet and renew IPs. I am using Firmware Version: 1.0.03. I have the same results for both Chrome and Firefox. I want to be able to set Static IPs but I am hampered by the not having any clients in the DHCP client table.
We have two Cisco 3560E layer 3 switches at the core of our network. The switches are configured as an HSRP pair and the clients on our network point to the HSRP address as their default gateway. So if CORE-A dies, then CORE-B will pick up the address and the default route for the clients will continue to be available.We also need to specify a few static routes on the core switch to allow us to get to specific networks. Is there a way to do this so that the routes failover in the same way that the default gateway does?
I started using RIPv2 on Packet Tracer. I got two subnets to connect with two routers. After I completed that, I decided to add a third router. How to setup the Routing Table for atleast R3 ?
I am using Cisco 2911 & IOS version is 15.1. My problem is that after some days (e.g. 15-20 days), the routing table suddenly stops updating & then I have to enter the default route again to make it up. I am using Track 1 to track default route here. After primary link goes down, the Track is also going down but after coming the primary link up, the track is not coming up. So, I have to add the default route again to make it up.
We have small which I'm looking to implement and have built this on GNS3.
We have:
Router A in site 1 Router B in site 2 Router C in site 3
Router A and B are connection via a point to point 100M link and from Router C we have a 2 point to point one of which is 5Mpbs and going to Router A and Router B.
For Router C to reach Router A network it will go via Router B and these are 100M connection. When the link between Router A and B goes down. Router C should update and start using the 5m route.
For some reson, the routes are not updating. I have to do 'clea ip eigrp ne' for the routes to update and if I reload the routers all works well, it seems the problem is intermittent.
I am attempting to filter a specific host(s) from my OSPF routiing table on a ASA 5550 (ABR) using LSA prefix lists. However, when I look at the other routers in that area, I notice that ALL LSA type-3's are being removed (10 hosts are now missing from the routing table). I have verified the filter is working on the ABR, but I can't figure why ALL hosts/routes that were coming into the area are now being filtered instead of the specific one that I want to filter out.
Here is the config on the ABR:
prefix-list pdm_pl_000 seq 10 permit 206.253.180.137/32 ! ! router ospf 1 network 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 area 0 network 10.150.10.0 255.255.255.0 area 10 network 10.150.252.0 255.255.255.224 area 10
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The 206.253.180.137 host is actually coming from Area '3'. Am I doing something that is removing all type-3 LSA's?
I upgraded to firmware version 1.0.03 I started to have this weird issue: I have four PCs connected to this wireless router via wireless G. They all run Windows 7 Home Premium. After a few hours I started to notice that the DHCP client table is empty even if all four PCs are connected to the internet. This causes a networking problem because one of the PC serves as a file server and it grants access by IP addresses. Not being able to "see" those computers, my access is denied.
On the 6509, with normal 67xx cards installed, where is all the mac table held, is it held on the card itself or on the supervisor? And if I use dcef cards, I gather the MSFC copies the mac table to the DFC ?