A serial port does not have a MAC address. In IPX, a host address
consists of the network address followed by a six-byte host portion
which--as you noticed--gets borrowed from the MAC address of the
ethernet interface. So, the serial link does not have a MAC address,
but it borrows the MAC address from the ethernet interface to construct
an IPX host address. This sort of thing is not necessary with IP.
HTH,
John
Cisco Nuts 1/14/02 1:14:35 PM
Hello,
Sorry for my previous email regarding seeing the mac address used by a
serial port.
The correct post should have been What test can I do on my router to
see
the mac address used by the serial port from the output of a #debug
broadcast command ??
And incidentally, this command is only available on ios ver. 10.3 which
I am
running on my 4500.
But NOT present on ios 11.3 or 12.0.9?? Looks like the #debug arp has
replaced it??
Please advsie
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