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Anthony_Gerace_
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Nov 16, 2004

Retrieve vlan mac address with get_true_mac_address method

Hi!   I was tasked with the project to retrieve the MAC addresses in use by BIG-IP. I have attempted to use the get_true_mac_address method in ITCMNetworking/VLAN. I am getting nothing coming bac...
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Anthony_Gerace_
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Nov 16, 2004
Hi Joe,

 

Thanks for the information. I thought the get_true_mac_address would be the mac address being used for a given VLAN (I wasn't thinking of L2 forwarding and such). If you do a search for that MAC address, you will not find it attached to any interface. How can I come up with the vlan mac address?

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

Anthony

 

 

 

 

bip5klab02:~ ifconfig external

 

external: (vlan0) flags=8843

 

link type vlan 0:1:d7:1:39:c1 mtu 1500