Vlan Dialog Box - Advanced Tab: Flushing The Forwarding Database - Nortel 8300 User Manual

Field
SmltRemote
Clearing learned MAC addresses from the forwarding database
For troubleshooting, you can manually flush the bridge forwarding database
of learned MAC addresses. This operation can be done for all MAC
addresses using one of the following procedures:
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Clearing learned MAC addresses by VLAN
To clear the forwarding database of learned MAC addresses for a VLAN:
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VLAN dialog box - Advanced tab: flushing the forwarding database
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Configuration — VLANs, Spanning Tree, and Static Link Aggregation using Device Manager
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Description
• level7 (highest priority)
Specifies if you want to use SMLT.
"Clearing learned MAC addresses by VLAN" (page 79)
"Clearing learned MAC addresses for all VLANs by port" (page 80)
Action
Select VLAN > VLANs from the Device Manager menu bar.
The VLAN dialog box appears with the Basic tab selected.
SeeFigure 20 "VLAN dialog box - Basic tab" (page
Click the Advanced tab.
The Advanced tab appears.
Double-click the VLAN Operation Action field for a specific VLAN,
and select flushMacFdb from the drop-down menu. See
dialog box - Advanced tab: flushing the forwarding database" (page
79).
Click Apply.
The VLAN is set for flushing the bridge forwarding database
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