Mac Address Table - EnGenius EWS Series User Manual

MAC Address Table

The MAC address table contains address information that the Switch uses to forward traffic between the
inbound and outbound ports. All MAC addresses in the address table are associated with one or more
ports. When the Switch receives traffic on a port, it searches the Ethernet switching table for the MAC
address of the destination. If the MAC address is not found, the traffic is flooded out all of the other
ports associated with the VLAN. All of the MAC address that the Switch learns by monitoring traffic are
stored in the dynamic address. A static address allows you to manually enter a MAC address to configure
a specific port and VLAN.
Static MAC Address
The address table lists the destination MAC address, the associated VLAN ID, and port number
associated with the address. When you specify a static MAC address, you set the MAC address to a VLAN
and a port; thus it makes an entry into its forwarding table. These entries are then used to forward
packets through the Switch. Static MAC addresses along with the Switch's port security allow only
devices in the MAC address table on a port to access the Switch.
Index Displays the index for the static MAC address table.
Port Select the port where the MAC address entered in the previous field will be
automatically forwarded.
VID Enter the VLAN ID on which the IGMP Snooping querier is administratively
enabled and for which the VLAN exists in the VLAN database.
MAC Address Enter a unicast MAC address for which the switch has forwarding or filtering
information.
Click the Apply button to accept the changes or the Cancel button to discard them.
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