Dell Force10 E600i FTOS Configuration Guide FTOS 8.4.2.8 E-Series TeraScale - Page 565

FTOS Behavior: The following conditions apply when you enable the sticky-MAC address option for MAC learning on an interface: • When you enable the sticky MAC learning option, all dynamically-learned MAC addresses that you save to the start-up configuration are converted to statically-configured MAC addresses when you reboot the switch. • When the switch reboots, the interface deletes all previously learned dynamic MAC addresses and regenerates the list of sticky MAC addresses in the running-configuration with statically-configured and newly learned dynamic MAC addresses. During the new session, MAC addresses that are dynamically-learned are automatically converted to sticky MAC addresses until the configured limit is reached. • The aging out of dynamically-learned MAC addresses on the interface is disabled and restarts only when you disable the sticky option. • A "station move" is not supported and a trusted MAC address in the table cannot be learned off another interface. • The list of sticky MAC addresses is converted back to their former dynamic addresses. • New dynamically-learned MAC addresses are no longer converted to sticky MAC addresses. • After a line card reset, a port or port-channel interface enabled for sticky-MAC learning dynamically learns the MAC addresses of devices attached to ports on other line cards only if the attached devices are transmitting continuous traffic on default VLAN 1. Note: A Sticky MAC configuration limits the number of MAC addresses that can be learned on a port/ port-channel interface. Because a trunk port receives trusted MAC addresses not from a single user or VLAN but from multiple users and VLANs, it is difficult to specify the exact MAC address limit on a trunk port. As a result, traffic from MAC addresses that exceed the limit may be dropped. It is recommended that you configure the sticky MAC option only on an access port, which is directly connected to a host and on which you want to limit the number of learned MAC addresses. It is not recommended that you configure sticky MAC learning on inter-bridge ports. If there is a topology change, traffic may be blocked because a sticky MAC address cannot be moved across the ports. To enable and display sticky MAC address learning on a Layer 2 physical port or port-channel interface, enter the following commands: Task Command Syntax Converts dynamically-learned MAC addresses to sticky MAC addresses to prevent trusted devices from moving to different interfaces. mac learning-limit address_limit sticky Display the MAC addresses with sticky MAC address show mac-address-table learning. Command Mode INTERFACE EXEC EXEC Privilege Layer 2 | 565