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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...
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!
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...
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 ...
