[c-nsp] show mac-address dynamic interface

Tassos Chatzithomaoglou achatz at forthnet.gr
Wed Apr 23 16:58:22 EDT 2008


I have seen the same output in cards than have double connections (2x20) to the fabric (i.e. 
X6704-10GE & WS-X6748-GE-TX) and use DFC cards. But that didn't cause any problem.

I guess ... FE = Forwarding/Fabric Engine or Fabric Enabled?

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Tassos


Ramcharan, Vijay A wrote on 23/4/2008 10:03 μμ:
> I am not sure whether this is normal behavior or not. I was looking into
> a problem where a server appears to hang network connections to it at
> about 15 minute idle intervals. I checked the usual suspects, speed,
> duplex, port errors etc. No discrepancies there.  
> 
> The switch in question is a 6509E running 12.2(18)SXF7. The lone VLAN
> 962 SVI on the switch is in the same VLAN as the problem server. I can
> ping the server without any issues. 
> I did a show mac-address dynamic int g3/39 to see what the switch
> records for this server. 
> 
> sw1#sh mac-addr dyn int g3/39
> Displaying entries from Line card 3:
> 
> Legend: * - primary entry
>         age - seconds since last seen
>         n/a - not available
> 
>   vlan   mac address     type    learn     age              ports
> ------+----------------+--------+-----+----------+----------------------
> ----
> [FE 1]:
> *  962  001b.7845.dbf8   dynamic  Yes        280   Gi3/39
> [FE 2]:
> *  962  001b.7845.dbf8   dynamic  Yes        165   Gi3/39
> 
> sw1#
> 
> 
> What is the meaning of [FE 1] and [FE 2] above? 
> Would that be why are there two entries for the same MAC address on the
> same port and VLAN? 
> I did some more digging and found other hosts/port showing the same
> behavior so it's not isolated to this one server. 
> Could any of this be related to the server issue? 
> 
> Thanks. 
>  
> Vijay Ramcharan 
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