MAC management

In MCT topologies, MAC addresses can be learned either on local CCEP or CEP interfaces, or from the remote MCT node. If the same MAC is learned from both MCT nodes, then MAC entries learned locally have higher priority than the one learned from the remote peer.

For remote MAC addresses, aging is disabled, and they can only be deleted when delete notifications are received from the remote node that advertised it before for learning.

The following terminologies are associated with MCT MAC entries.

Dynamic—MAC addresses learned locally on CEP ports
Cluster Remote (CR)—MAC addresses learned on remote CEP ports
Cluster Client Local (CCL)—MAC addresses learned locally on a client interface
Cluster Client Remote (CCR)—MAC addresses learned on a remote client interface