[racktables-users] Re: About L2Address to be unique

  • From: Nestor <nestor.asa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:38:45 +0400

Hi

Hewlett Packard Procurve switches have identical MAC addresses on
every port too.
So it would be generic for some sort of switching hardware.

-- 
Alexandr



On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 02:22, Denis Ovsienko<pilot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:08:49 +0200 Michael Holm - 2Fast wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all, nice software :).. but im trying to hack the snmp import
>> script a little bit.. i want to be able to import my ZyXEL switches..
>> but i has found out that you cannot have the same mac address on
>> multiple ports on the same object :/
>
> Hello.
>
> All managed switches I've met so far have unique L2 address on each
> port, at least when it comes to the BIA (burn-in address). The
> constraint was introduced to make this fact working against mistaken
> data entry. Of course, if it is acceptable to have such duplicates in
> the real world, the DB constraint should be removed (currently the
> search function relies on it). But I suspect, that the duplicates have
> to do with STP.
>
> Any other ZyXEL hardware owners here?
>
>

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