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CaptainFanatic · 10-07-2007

I am using a Cisco Catalyst 2960 on an industrial network. The MAC address of a particular type of device is not discovered by this router. I have done some tests with a simple switch and was able to discover the MAC and assign an ip to this device.I...

CaptainFanatic · 10-08-2007

I have solved this issue:The discovery protocol used by profinet must be similar to that used by ip phones. When I set "switchport voice vlan 1" on the interface used by the child node, the MAC discovery from the Parent node starts working.Fixed!

CaptainFanatic · 10-08-2007

I've tried setting portfast and still no joy.The software running on the parent node has a "browse for MAC" function that should enable me to find the child node. This is not working through the cisco switch but does work through a simple non-configu...

CaptainFanatic · 10-07-2007

This bit of gear is a bit strange, it doesn't use DHCP, but does get an ip assigned by a "parent" on the network. The parent uses the MAC address of the device to communicate with it, but cannot find the MAC address through the cisco router as it is ...

CaptainFanatic · 10-07-2007

08-00-06-9D-D8-85It is a siemens device that acts as a gateway between ethernet and profibus (a serial bus for addressable I/O)

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