Configuring The Mac Address Table; Establishing The Configuration Task - Huawei Quidway S9300 Configuration Manual

Quidway S9300 Terabit Routing Switch
Configuration Guide - Ethernet

6.3 Configuring the MAC Address Table

This section describes how to configure the static entries, blackhole entries, and dynamic entries
of a MAC address table.

6.3.1 Establishing the Configuration Task

6.3.2 Creating a Static MAC Address Entry
6.3.3 Creating a Blackhole MAC Address Entry
6.3.4 (Optional) Setting the Aging Time of Dynamic MAC Address Entries
6.3.5 Disabling MAC Address Learning
6.3.6 Checking the Configuration
6.3.1 Establishing the Configuration Task
Applicable Environment
In the following situations, you need to configure static entries and blackhole entries or adjust
the aging time of the dynamic entries in the MAC table to meet different requirements:
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Pre-configuration Tasks
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Data Preparation
To configure the MAC address table, you need the following data.
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Specify interfaces to forward the packets with specified destination MAC addresses.
Discard the packets with the specified destination MAC addresses or source MAC
addresses to:
Prevent invalid MAC address entries from consuming the capacity of the MAC address
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table.
Prevent hackers from using MAC addresses to attack user devices or networks.
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Change the aging time of dynamic entries in the MAC address table to prevent an explosive
increase in MAC address entries.
Data
(Optional) Destination MAC address, outgoing interface number, VLAN ID of the
outgoing interface on the destination device, VLAN ID required to be changed when
the packet is sent out from the interface
(Optional) Aging time of dynamic entries
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