It is quite normal for many switches to have identical MAC addresses on
all ports.

My point was to actually check what the switch itself thinks its MAC
addresses were before moaning

No one has bothered to do that, thus no one is bothering to look at their
problem.

adam.


On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:27:40 +0400, Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru>
wrote:
> Hi Stefan many people who start using obs for first time realize what
> their vendor suck at snmp. It's just obs start exposing all kind
nonsense.
> As people rarely poll these things specially. And only do important
things
> like interface that's It.
>
> On 10.04.2013, at 4:54, Stefani Milo <stefan@t.dk> wrote:
>
>> i said it was either the switches OR observium. maybe i should have
used
>> "issue" instead of "bug".
>>
>> alex, fell free to chime in... i can't fight this guy alone... if you
>> haven't noticed, adam has earned himself quite the reputation over
time.
>> :)
>>
>> .stefan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Fra: observium-bounces@observium.org [observium-bounces@observium.org]
>> På vegne af Adam Armstrong [adama@memetic.org]
>> Sendt: 9. april 2013 20:37
>> Til: Observium Network Observation System
>> Emne: Re: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports
>>
>> You said there is a bug, did you even check?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 20:40:52 +0200, Stefan Milo <stefan@zendata.dk>
wrote:
>>> I'm just saying that cisco devices differ from dell devices in the mac
>>> reporting when used with observium. I don't use the feature anyways...
I
>>> just wanted to give some input to the mail from Alex. :)
>>>
>>> Br
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> Sendt fra min iPad
>>>
>>> Den 09/04/2013 kl. 20.36 skrev "Adam Armstrong" <adama@memetic.org>:
>>>
>>>> What do you think they should report? Do you know that each port
>>>> actually has a different Mac?
>>>>
>>>> Stefan Milo <stefan@zendata.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> they're powerconnects, not force10.... big difference. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> i have multiple observium installations with force10 s25n,
>> powerconnect
>>>>> 6224 and lots of different cisco switches.
>>>>>
>>>>> on the force10 and powerconnects i see the same as you, with the
same
>>>>> mac address on all interfaces. on my cisco devices theres different
>>>>> mac's on the ports.
>>>>>
>>>>> so it's either a bug in FTOS and Powerconnect, or it's something
deep
>>>>> within observium.
>>>>>
>>>>> brt
>>>>>
>>>>> stefan milo
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>> Fra: observium-bounces@observium.org
[observium-bounces@observium.org]
>>>>> På vegne af Alex Vitola [alex.vitola@gmail.com]
>>>>> Sendt: 9. april 2013 18:57
>>>>> Til: L - Observium
>>>>> Emne: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports
>>>>>
>>>>> The same mac address for all port in all devices(dell 6248,
force10).
>>>>> It's correct?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> mysql> use observium;
>>>>> Database changed
>>>>> mysql> select device_id,ifDescr,ifPhysAddress from ports where
>>>>> device_id=5 limit 10;
>>
+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+
>>>>> | device_id | ifDescr                                  |
ifPhysAddress
>> |
>>
+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 1 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 2 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 3 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 4 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 5 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 6 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 7 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 8 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 9 Gigabit - Level  |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>>>> |         5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 10 Gigabit - Level |
5c260adb03da
>> |
>>
+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+
>>>>> 10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>>>>>
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