Figure 2-1 Forwarding Packets According To The Mac Address Table - Raisecom ISCOM2600G-HI (A) Series Configuration Manual

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ISCOM2600G-HI (A) Series Configuration Guide
The ISCOM2600G-HI series switch supports showing MAC address information by device,
interface, or VLAN.
Forwarding modes of MAC addresses
When forwarding packets, based on the information about MAC addresses, the
ISCOM2600G-HI series switch adopts the following modes:
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Figure 2-1 Forwarding packets according to the MAC address table

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Classification of MAC addresses
MAC address table is divided into static address entry and dynamic address entry.
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Unicast: when a MAC address entry, related to the destination MAC address of a packet,
is listed in the MAC address table, the ISCOM2600G-HI series switch will directly
forward the packet to the receiving interface through the egress interface of the MAC
address entry. If the entry is not listed, the ISCOM2600G-HI series switch broadcasts the
packet to all interfaces except the receiving interface, as shown in Figure 2-1.
Multicast: when the ISCOM2600G-HI series switch receives a packet of which the
destination MAC address is a multicast address, it will broadcast the packet. If multicast
is enabled and storm control over unknown packets is also enabled, the packet will be
sent to the specified Report interface. If no Report interface is specified, the packet will
be discarded.
Broadcast: when the ISCOM2600G-HI series switch receives an all-F packet, or the
MAC address is not listed in the MAC address table, the ISCOM2600G-HI series switch
forwards the packet to all interfaces except the interface that receives this packet.
Broadcast addresses are special multicast addresses.
Static MAC address entry: also called permanent address, added and removed by the
user manually, not aged with time. For a network with small changes of devices, adding
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