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Chapter 4 Using the Broadband Access Center for Cable Administrator User Interface
Searching For and Viewing Device Information
Note
The vendor-prefix is the first 3 octets of the MAC address. For example, for MAC address
1,6,aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff, the vendor-prefix is “aa:bb:cc”.
1,6,aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff, the vendor-prefix is “aa:bb:cc”.
Figure 4-16 MAC Address Search Page
identifies the MAC Address Search page fields and buttons shown in
.
Table 4-7
MAC Address Search Page
Field or Button
Description
MAC Address or MAC
Address wildcard
Address wildcard
Enter the MAC address in this field using any of these formats:
•
The full MAC address for any given device. For example:
1,6,00:00:00:00:00:AE
•
Only the vendor-prefix portion of MAC address. For example:
1,6,00:00:00:*
Note
The asterisk wildcard character can be used in place of any MAC
address octet.
address octet.
•
An asterisk (*) to search for all devices. If you use this input option, a
limited number of search results are returned to you. For example:
limited number of search results are returned to you. For example:
1,6,*
Note
Cisco does not recommend using the last wildcard search ( 1,6,*) in
systems that support hundreds of thousands, or more, devices.
systems that support hundreds of thousands, or more, devices.