#VMWARE MAC ADDRESS TABLE AGING WINDOWS 10#

I just selected the current auto-generated MAC to use for this purpose. These two can be used to force the bridge to use a static MAC address. The MikroTik wiki mentions two options вЂ“ admin-mac and auto-mac. If I left my switch up 24/7, this wouldnвЂ™t be a problem, but since I donвЂ™t, I need keep things consistent. Because of this, there is a good chance the MAC will change after each boot. The bridge MAC is auto-selected based on one of the bridge ports at boot-up. This discovery is based upon the MAC address of the default gateway вЂ“ sure enough it seemed to be changing after each power up of the CRS309.ДЄfter doing some research it seems that this is expected behaviour. After opening a console to the Windows VM I discovered that the network discovery feature was detecting a new network and prompting whether it was trusted. As part of the power down process, I was cutting power to the MikroTik CRS309 switch, which is the default gateway for the VMs in VLAN 1.

#VMWARE MAC ADDRESS TABLE AGING WINDOWS 10#

I noticed that my Windows 10 VM kept becoming inaccessible after shutting down and powering up my lab.

Vmware mac address table aging