Reviewing Layer 3 Mu Status - Motorola WS5100 Series Reference Manual

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L2-ROAMs
sent/rcvd
L3-ROAMs
sent/rcvd
4. Click the Clear Statistics

5.5.4 Reviewing Layer 3 MU Status

The Layer 3 Mobility
domain. Use the MU status information to familiarize yourself with these MUs and their mobility-related
parameters to distinguish new MUs entering the network from existing MUs roaming within the mobility
domain.
To view Layer 3 mobility MU statistics
1. Select Services
The Layer 3 Mobility
2. Select the MU Status
Displays the number of Layer 2 ROAM messages sent and received. When a MU
roams to a new switch on a different layer 3 network (MU is mapped to a different
VLAN ID), it sends a L3-ROAM message to the home switch with the new IP
information for the current switch it is associated with. The L3-ROAM message is
then forwarded by the home switch to each peer.
Displays the number of Layer 3 ROAM messages sent and received. When a MU
roams to a new current switch (on the same layer 3 subnet as the old current
switch), it sends a L2-ROAM message to the old home switch with the new home
switch-IP and current switch-IP information. This L2-ROAM message is then
forwarded by the old home switch to each peer.
button to remove the data displayed for the selected peer IP address.
MU Status tab displays a set of MU stats for associated MUs within the mobility
> Layer 3 Mobility from the main menu tree.
screen appears with the Configuration tab displayed.
tab.