topic Re: trace mac in summit and black diamond in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

trace mac in summit and black diamond

sebastianr — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 23:15:50 GMT

hi experts

i have a lot of summit 440, 450, 480 and black diamond 8810

the version are from 12 to 16 no more than that, really old xos images

so i have to trace a lot of mac, there is a command like tracemac mac x.x.x.x x.x.x.x

that solves a lot of this problem like tracking mac in a bunch of l2 switches?

i also think for the version i cannot get the ouput in a more parsing in json or rpc ?

or there is a way to get this and not make some kind of screen scraping?

Re: trace mac in summit and black diamond

FredrikB — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:27:31 GMT

The only way to track a MAC address would be to start in a central location (the BD8810 might be a good starting point) and see on which port the MAC is located. Then go to the switch connected to that port and repeat until you find the access port where the MAC is. EDP and LLDP will help you see which switch is connected to which port. A script on an external computer can get the job done for you.