Switch ports

I am in need of some assistance here. How would you go about finding which port a mac address gets forwarded out of? Say I was given a list of mac addresses and a switch what command/s would I use?

I thought

Show spantree
Show mac-address-table

Are there any others?

Thanks

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Humper

The only one I can think of

show mac-address-table

You could also use show arp which gives you the IP addresses and mac-addresses in the ARP table. Again, you would go back to using show-mac-address-table to identify which port that IP/MAC address is tied too.

PCHoldmann

You can use

show mac-address-table | include xxxx-yyyy-zzzz

where xxxx-yyyy-zzzz is one of the MAC addresses you are looking for. This will give you only the line for that MAC.

You can also use SNMP and a tool like Switch Port Mapper from Solarwinds (www.solarwinds.net, not free, but they also have some free tools)

HTH

Peter

Humper

the include option is not really necessary as I have found out

show mac-address-table address xxxx-yyyy-zzzz works just as well