Viewing VLAN forwarding database information

Perform this procedure to view forwarding database entries for all VLANs on the device.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation tree, expand the following folders: Configuration > VLAN.
  2. Click VLANs.
  3. In the VLANs tab, click the Forwarding tab.

Forwarding Field Descriptions

Use the data in the following table to use the Forwarding tab.

Name

Description

VlanId

Specifies the VLAN ID in the range of 1 to 4059. By default, VLAN IDs 1 to 4059 are configurable and the system reserves VLAN IDs 4060 to 4094 for internal use. On switches that support the vrf-scaling and spbm-config-mode boot configuration flags, if you enable these flags, the system also reserves VLAN IDs 3500 to 3998. VLAN ID 1 is the default VLAN and you cannot create or delete VLAN ID 1.

Address

Specifies a unicast MAC address for which the VLAN has forwarding or filtering information.

Status

Specifies the status of the VLAN. The values are:

  • other

  • invalid

  • learned

  • self

  • mgmt

Port

Specifies either a value of zero (0) or the port number of the port on which a frame having the specified MAC address was seen. A value of cpp indicates a self-assigned MAC address.

BMac

Shows the backbone MAC address if the entry is learned from a Shortest Path Bridging MAC (SPBM) network.

Cvid

Specifies the customer VID.