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182 Chapter 4: Bridges/Switches and LAN Design
Notice that there is no IP address in the show interface output because the IP address is
associated with the entire switch, not just a single interface. The Spanning Tree state of the
interface is shown, as is the duplex setting. If duplex was mismatched with the device on the
other end, the later collisions counter would most likely increment rapidly.
Viewing and Configuring Entries in the MAC Address Table
The switching/bridging table concept discussed earlier in this chapter is called the MAC address
table
on the 1900 family of switches. The MAC address table contains dynamic entries, which
are learned when the switch receives frames and examines the source MAC address. Two other
variations of entries in the MAC address table are important to switch configuration and are
outlined along with dynamic entries in the following list:
·
Dynamic addresses--MAC addresses added to the MAC address table via normal
bridge/switch processing. In other words, when a frame is received, the source MAC of
the frame is associated with the incoming port/interface. These entries in the table time
out with disuse and are cleared whenever the entire table is cleared.
·
Permanent MAC addresses--Via configuration, a MAC address is associated with a
port, just as it would have been associated as a dynamic address. However, permanent
entries in the table never time out.
·
Restricted-static entries--Via configuration, a MAC address is configured to be
associated only with a particular port, with an additional restriction: Frames destined to
that MAC address must have entered via a particular set of incoming ports.
Description:
Duplex setting: Half duplex
Back pressure: Disabled
Receive Statistics Transmit Statistics
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
Total good frames 44841 Total frames 404502
Total octets 4944550 Total octets 29591574
Broadcast/multicast frames 31011 Broadcast/multicast frames 390913
Broadcast/multicast octets 3865029 Broadcast/multicast octets 28478154
Good frames forwarded 44832 Deferrals 0
Frames filtered 9 Single collisions 0
Runt frames 0 Multiple collisions 0
No buffer discards 0 Excessive collisions 0
Queue full discards 0
Errors: Errors:
FCS errors 0 Late collisions 0
Alignment errors 0 Excessive deferrals 0
Giant frames 0 Jabber errors 0
Address violations 0 Other transmit errors 0
Example 4-4
show ip and show interfaces Output (Continued)
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