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Cannot see MAC address to connected port on Switch

Kaushik Ray
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Hello

 

I am experiencing a strange problem and would be grateful to have some advice on this.

 

I have a Switch (WS-C3750X-48P-S) version (flash:/c3750e-universalk9-mz.122-55.SE5).

 

I have two devices connected on two ports of the switch Gi1/0/41 and Gi1/0/42.

 

The configuration on the interfaces are as follows:

 

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/41
 description ### ALert Logic monitor port ###
 switchport access vlan 2
 switchport mode access
 load-interval 30
 duplex full
 spanning-tree portfast
end

sw01#sh run int Gi1/0/42
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 196 bytes
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/42
 description ### ALert Logic monitor port ###
 switchport access vlan 2
 switchport mode access
 load-interval 30
 duplex full
 spanning-tree portfast
end

But I cannot see them on the MAC address table

sw01#sh mac address-table int Gi1/0/41
          Mac Address Table
-------------------------------------------

Vlan    Mac Address       Type        Ports
----    -----------       --------    -----
sw01#sh mac address-table int Gi1/0/42
          Mac Address Table
-------------------------------------------

Vlan    Mac Address       Type        Ports
----    -----------       --------    -----

I was able to see that a couple of hours back

 

sh mac address-table int Gi1/0/41

          Mac Address Table

-------------------------------------------

 

Vlan    Mac Address       Type        Ports

----    -----------       --------    -----

   2    a036.9f36.d885    DYNAMIC     Gi1/0/41

Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 1

sw01# sh mac address-table int Gi1/0/42

          Mac Address Table

-------------------------------------------

 

Vlan    Mac Address       Type        Ports

----    -----------       --------    -----

   2    a036.9f36.d884    DYNAMIC     Gi1/0/42

Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 1

But since I could not see IP addresses getting associated to the MAC addresses, I did a shut / no shut on the port but have not been able to see the MAC address since. Any advice as to what may have gone wrong?

 

sw01(config)#int Gi1/0/41
sw01(config-if)#no shut
sw01(config-if)#int Gi1/0/42
sw01(config-if)#no shut
sw01(config-if)#^Z

 

 

Any hints would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Kaushik

 

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