Alcatel SPEED TOUCH 710 User Manual page 57

The 'Bridging Ports'
table
'Bridging Ports' table
components
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The following figure shows the 'Bridging Ports' table:
Field Description
Bridge Port Indicates the phonebook entry for the Bridging entry.
Encap Indicates the applied encapsulation method for Ethernet
frames(*) on the VC.
The AST710 supports both the LLC/SNAP method (default)
and the VC MUX method.
FCS Indicates whether the last four bytes of the Ethernet frames
are preserved or not. By default the FCS is set to NO.
Note: You can set the FCS to YES via the CLI.
Allows you to change the state of the Bridging entry. It can
State
take following values:
By default, the sole configured Bridge port Br1, is disabled.
(*) Ethernet frames are also referred to as Medium Access Control (MAC)
frames or IEEE802.3 frames.
7 Configuration and Use - Transparent Bridging
Value Description
The Bridge port participates in the
Forwarding
relaying of frames.
Source MAC addresses of arriving
frames are stored in the filtering
database.
learning The Bridge port only submits
information to the filtering database.
It does not participate in the relaying
of frames.
The Bridge port in this state, does not
disabled
participate in the relaying of frames,
nor in updating the filtering
database.
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