B Mac Address Management; Overview; Determining The Mac Addresses - HP ProCurve Switch 212M Management And Configuration Manual

MAC Address Management

Overview

From the factory, the switch is assigned a block of MAC addresses:

Determining the MAC Addresses

You can use the switch console to determine the base MAC address and the
port MAC addresses for the switch. The methods are described in the rest of
this appendix.
for network management functions, a base MAC address is assigned to
the switch
for internal switch operations, one MAC address is assigned to each
switch port
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