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Note: If a port is a member of a trunk group but is not the
anchor, the items shown in the above table will be read-
only and the values will be the same as those for the
anchor port.
Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table
When a packet hits the Switch, it looks in the filtering and
forwarding tables to decide what to do with the packet; either to filter
it off the network, or to forward it through the port on which its
destination lies.
Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two important
features of the Custom Filtering Table. They are defined here
briefly as follows. Dynamic Filtering is defined when a dynamic entry
is created by the Learning Process as a result of observation of
network traffic in the Filtering Database. Static Filtering is defined
as static entries that may be added and removed from the Filtering
Database by the user. They are not automatically removed by any
timeout mechanism.
The Configure Filtering and Forwarding table screen allows
you to stop or start address learning, change the way the Switch
treats MAC address table entries, and select an age-out time of the
MAC address in the selected address table. This screen also permits
you to access three additional configuration screens from the menu at
the bottom of the window.
Choose Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table from the
System Configuration menu to access the following screen:
Using the Console Interface
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