Solved: Cisco Catalyst port -> VLAN and MAC-address

phsorensen · ‎02-16-2010

Hi

For a given port on a Catalyst 4948 I need to determine:

if the interface is a trunk
which mac-addresses the interface has seen (same info as "show mac-address-table dynamic" gives)
which VLAN the interface is on

The major problem is the it seems that I have to do reverse engineering:
examine all VLAN's, cache all MAC-addresses and look for the ifIndex...

Is there any better way to do that (hopefully without traversing everything)?

I found SNMP::Info, which gives me i_vlan_membership() and v_name(), but that
is only half-way through...

Thank you
Poul

phsorensen · ‎02-18-2010

I asked the same question on https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snmp-info-users

Netdisco was suggested
Kesy suggested a solution that I implemented using perl and SNMP::Info, the outline:
1. $switch->vtp_trunk_dyn_stat() - to get trunking/notTrunking interface status
2. $switch->fw_mac() - to get forwarding table for each vlan. Remember about community string indexing
3. $switch->i_vlan() - to get vlan id on interface

I have attached my script

Poul

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Kevin Dorrell · ‎02-16-2010

Poul,

I'm afraid I don't know an easy way to do this, but I understand the frustration. It's something that is so easy using the CLI, but when you try and do it with SNMP the information is presented "back to front", so it is a long involved process of loading whole tables and then doing seraches.

I use CA Spectrum and I wrote a script to trace a MAC address through the network so that I could track down rogue hosts and errors in my model placements. I did it using exactly the same steps as you suggest. That is, I go to the router, download its ARP cache to look up the IP address I am interested in and get the VLAN. Then starting at the VLAN root, I go to each switch in turn, laboriously download its forwarding table using CommunityString@VLAN, get the ifindex of the next hop port, etc. etc.

The only thing I can suggest is to search the MIB specifications to se if there any shortcuts. If you find any, then please let me know .

Kevin Dorrell

Luxembourg

phsorensen · ‎02-18-2010

I asked the same question on https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snmp-info-users

Netdisco was suggested
Kesy suggested a solution that I implemented using perl and SNMP::Info, the outline:
1. $switch->vtp_trunk_dyn_stat() - to get trunking/notTrunking interface status
2. $switch->fw_mac() - to get forwarding table for each vlan. Remember about community string indexing
3. $switch->i_vlan() - to get vlan id on interface

I have attached my script

Poul

Message was edited by: Poul Sorensen