Of course Rajesh should be the one to comment on this.. But I'm sitting here
and I'm going to take a stab at it.

My understanding is that an SNMP trap with a "new MAC" notification is set.

Anyone wanna smack me for taking a stupid guess?
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Ryan Dorman, CCNP
Network Engineering Specialist
Millersville University
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On 3/31/06 8:39 AM, "Lanstein, Alex C" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Well, it's fun freaky (programming) friday again.  I'm browsing through the
> CAM sql table and I came across the OOB entries.  We don't have the OOB CCA
> due to cost so I can't check for myself - does anyone know how the CCA knows
> the original port name/number/originating switch of any given mac address?
> *cough raj how does it work cough*
> 
> I wrote a layer 2 traceroute tool that basically uses CDP on the switch itself
> to iteratively track down mac addresses on our 2950s, but this is clearly not
> the "right" way to do it.  Is there some sort of tagging done by the switch
> that's documented somewhere?
> 
> Regards,
> Alex Lanstein