[RndTbl] Small switch recommendation.
Adam Thompson
athompso at athompso.net
Fri Jun 2 10:33:40 CDT 2017
On 2017-06-02 07:30, Sean Cody wrote:
> On the particular switch line I was working with you couldn't find
> what MACs were behind specific ports as the switch didn't record them
> and instead in the SAME MIB field recorded just the MAC of the switch
> management interface. Made finding devices difficult as I could trace
> it down to a trunk (via core or distribution) but not past it at
> access. Super frustrating.
Oh! Yeah, that's a bug. Or at least a really shitty mis-feature. Most
likely the specs for the switch carefully don't claim that it supports
BRIDGE-MIB but some twit decided to provide a stub response instead of
"noSuchName" in the error status.
-Adam
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