Displaying Vlan Information; Managing The Layer 2 Forwarding Database - Nortel 2300 Series Configuration Manual

96 Configuring and Managing Ports and VLANs

Displaying VLAN Information

To display VLAN configuration information, use the following command:
show vlan config [vlan-id]
To display information for VLAN burgundy, type the following command:
23x0# show vlan config burgundy
VLAN Name
---- ---------------- ------ ----- ----- ---------------- ----- -----
2 burgundy
Note.
The display can include AP access ports and wired authentication ports, because
WSS Software dynamically adds these ports to a VLAN when handling user traffic for the
VLAN.
(For information about the fields in the output, see the Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2300 Software Command
Reference.)

Managing the Layer 2 Forwarding Database

An WSS switch uses a Layer 2 forwarding database (FDB) to forward traffic within a VLAN. The entries in
the forwarding database map MAC addresses to the physical or virtual ports connected to those MAC
addresses within a particular VLAN. To forward a packet to another device in a VLAN, the WSS switch
searches the forwarding database for the packet's destination MAC address, then forwards the packet out the
port associated with the MAC address.
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Admin VLAN Tunl
Status State Affin Port
Up Up
Tag
5
2
3
4
6
11
Port
State
none Up
none Up
none Up
none Up
none Up