Should the MAC Tables on a switch Stack be the same between sessions?
Posted
by
Kyle Brandt
on Server Fault
See other posts from Server Fault
or by Kyle Brandt
Published on 2012-09-24T20:58:10Z
Indexed on
2012/09/24
21:39 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 186
According to Cisco's documentation:
"The MAC address tables on all stack members are synchronized. At any given time, each stack member has the same copy of the address tables for each VLAN."
However, when logged into the switch I see the following:
ny-swstack01#show mac ad | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 222
ny-swstack01#ses 2
ny-swstack01-2#show mac ad | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 229
ny-swstack01-2#exit
ny-swstack01#ses 3
ny-swstack01-3#show mac ad | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 229
ny-swstack01-3#exit
ny-swstack01#ses 4
ny-swstack01-4#show mac ad | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 235
ny-swstack01-4#exit
ny-swstack01#show mac ad | inc Total
Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 222
Going back and forth this isn't just because it is changing over time either, within certain sessions there are entries that I don't seen from the master session. We are currently waiting to hear back on CIsco from this, but has anyone run into this before? I stumbled upon this when looking into Unicast flooding, one of the hosts that is a destination MAC of flooding has a MAC entry that appears in session 3, but nowhere else.
Also, I checked an all sessions show the same aging time.
© Server Fault or respective owner