kewakl (Customer) asked a question.

November 4, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Stride Unmanaged Switch MAC Addresses

Are these MAC addresses valid, registered?

In Wireshark, I see the following (sanitized, of course)

  1. Ethernet II, Src: ----PC-NAME------.local (---LOCAL-MAC---), Dst: IPv4mcast_fb (01:00:5e:aa:bb:cc)

where the aa:bb:cc changes depending on which SE2-SW5U I have connected.

I entered the reported MAC Address into some of the various MAC Lookup websites, and on Wireshark's OUI Lookup tool.

 

Nothing.

Are these MAC Addresses spoofed?

 

IT/MIS wants the MAC of the stride switch. I guess for access control filtering??

 

Please Advise

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  • ADC TechnologyGroup_05 (AutomationDirect)

    Please forgive my confusion, but your inquiry is regarding the SE2-SW5U, which is an unmanaged switch. An unmanaged layer 2 switch does not typically have a MAC address. It is just a simple device that builds a MAC address table and forwards frames. A managed switch, on the other hand, will have its own MAC address and IP address.  

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  • ADC TechnologyGroup_05 (AutomationDirect)

    This is not the MAC address of the Stride switch, but rather the MAC address for the IPv4 multicast IP address 224.xxx.xxx.xxx.

  • kewakl (Customer)

    Please Advise....

    How to determine the MAC of these devices

     

    Thank you

  • ADC TechnologyGroup_05 (AutomationDirect)

    Please forgive my confusion, but your inquiry is regarding the SE2-SW5U, which is an unmanaged switch. An unmanaged layer 2 switch does not typically have a MAC address. It is just a simple device that builds a MAC address table and forwards frames. A managed switch, on the other hand, will have its own MAC address and IP address.  

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    • kewakl (Customer)

      Please forgive MY confusion, too.

      My IT guy asked for the MAC address for an unmanaged switch.

      I assumed that my IT guy knew what he was talking about.

       

      It always seems to revolve devolve back to "The job of IT is to try to keep me from doing my job."

      As always, thank you

       

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