Displaying the mac address table, Network interface controller (nic) teaming – Dell PowerEdge FX2/FX2s User Manual
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Displaying the MAC Address Table
To display the MAC address table, use the following command.
• Display the contents of the MAC address table.
EXEC Privilege mode
NOTE: This command is available only in PMUX mode.
show mac-address-table [address | aging-time [vlan vlan-id]| count | dynamic
| interface | static | vlan]
– address: displays the specified entry.
– aging-time: displays the configured aging-time.
– count: displays the number of dynamic and static entries for all VLANs, and the total number of
entries.
– dynamic: displays only dynamic entries.
– interface: displays only entries for the specified interface.
– static: displays only static entries.
– vlan: displays only entries for the specified VLAN.
Network Interface Controller (NIC) Teaming
NIC teaming is a feature that allows multiple network interface cards in a server to be represented by one
MAC address and one IP address in order to provide transparent redundancy, balancing, and to fully
utilize network adapter resources.
Support for NIC teaming is auto-configured on the Aggregator, including support for:
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The below fig shows a topology where two NICs have been teamed together. In this case, if the primary
NIC fails, traffic switches to the secondary NIC, because they are represented by the same set of
addresses.
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