# Monitoring MAC Address Entries for a Specific VPLS Instance

#### Purpose

Display information about the MAC address entries in the forwarding table for the specified VPLS instance.

#### Action

To display information about the MAC address entries:

    host1#show bridge vpls1 table
      Bridge: vpls1 MAC Address Table

       Address             Action                 Interface             Age
    --------------  --------------------  --------------------------  -------
    0009.01a0.002e  forward               ATM10/1.1.1                 0
    0090.1a41.3aca  forward               vpls (10)                   0

#### Meaning

Table 125 lists the show bridge table command output fields.

Table 125: show bridge table Output Fields

Field Name | Field Description
--- | ---
Bridge | Name of the VPLS instance for which the MAC address table is displayed
Address | MAC address of the entry
Action | Specifies how the VPLS instance handles this entry: forward or discard
Interface | Interface type and specifier on which the entry is forwarded; this value does not appear for entries that are discarded; vpls identifies the VPLS virtual core interface
Age | Length of time that a dynamic entry has been in the forwarding table; this value does not appear for static entries

#### Related Documentation

- show bridge table