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i would like to know the command syntax to trace a mac address in a lan. I'm experiencing some issue in quick localization of a device by using only that information, I remember the use of 'traceroute mac-src mac-dst' command, and in particular to specify the same address as src and dst to locate a device in Cisco Catalyst devices, but I would need to know the command usage in Cisco Nexus and Huawei devices, and optionally I would need to know how the process to trace a layer-2 address works

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While some switches offer some kind of MAC 'tracing', an actual traceroute functionality isn't possible due to the lack of a TTL field in Ethernet - see this question for details.

What you can do however, is check the switch's MAC table for both the source and the destination MAC address (depending on vendor/OS something along show mac address-table or show mac-address). The MAC table indicates on which ports those MAC addresses have last been visible and which VLANs they are associated with.

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