Mac Table; C Ha Pte R 39 Mac T A B Le; Mac Table Overview; What You Can Do - ZyXEL Communications GS1350 Series User Manual

39.1 MAC T a b le O ve rvie w
This chapter introduces the
The
MAC T a b le
forwarded or filtered across the Switch's ports. It shows what device MAC address, belonging to what
VLAN group (if any) is forwarded to which port(s) and whether the MAC address is dynamic (learned by
the Switch) or static (manually entered in the
39.1.1 Wha t Yo u C a n Do
Use the
MAC T a b le
static.
39.1.2 Wha t Yo u Ne e d to Kno w
The Switch uses the MAC table to determine how to forward frames. See the following figure.
1
The Switch examines a received frame and learns the port on which this source MAC address came.
2
The Switch checks to see if the frame's destination MAC address matches a source MAC address
already learned in the MAC table.
• If the Switch has already learned the port for this MAC address, then it forwards the frame to that port.
• If the Switch has not already learned the port for this MAC address, then the frame is flooded to all
ports. Too much port flooding leads to network congestion.
• If the Switch has already learned the port for this MAC address, but the destination port is the same as
the port it came in on, then it filters the frame.
Fig ure 227
MAC T a b le
screen (a MAC table is also known as a filtering database) shows how frames are
screen (Section 39.2 on page
MAC Table Flowchart
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HA PTER
MAC T a b le
screen.
Sta tic MAC Fo rwa rding
306) to check whether the MAC address is dynamic or
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screen).