Clear Mac Address-Table - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Command Reference Manual

Chapter 2 Catalyst 2950 and 2955 Cisco IOS Commands

clear mac address-table

Use the clear mac address-table privileged EXEC command to delete from the MAC address table a
specific dynamic address, all dynamic addresses on a particular interface, or all dynamic addresses on a
particular VLAN. This command also clears the MAC address notification global counters.
Beginning with Cisco IOS Release 12.1(11)EA1, the clear mac address-table command replaces the
Note
clear mac-address-table command (with the hyphen).
Syntax Description dynamic
dynamic address
mac-addr
dynamic interface
interface-id
dynamic vlan vlan-id
notification
Defaults No default is defined.
Command Modes
Privileged EXEC
Command History Release
12.1(6)EA2
12.1(9)EA1
12.1(11)EA1
Examples
This example shows how to remove a specific dynamic address from the MAC address table:
Switch# clear mac address-table dynamic address 0008.0070.0007
You can verify that the information was deleted by entering the show mac address-table privileged
EXEC command.
Related Commands
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clear mac address-table {dynamic [address mac-addr | interface interface-id | vlan vlan-id] |
notification}
Delete all dynamic MAC addresses.
(Optional) Delete the specified dynamic MAC address.
(Optional) Delete all dynamic MAC addresses on the specified physical port
or port channel.
(Optional) Delete all dynamic MAC addresses for the specified VLAN. The
range is 1 to 4094.
Clear the notifications in the history table and reset the counters.
Modification
This command was introduced.
The notification keyword was added.
The clear mac-address-table command was replaced by the clear mac
address-table command.
Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2955 Switch Command Reference
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