Static Mac Addresses - Intel ES460MSX - Ethernet 1000Base SX Switch Module User Manual

C H A P T E R
Note
To view the switch's address
table, click the Monitor menu,
click Advanced, then click MAC
Address Table.
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Static MAC Addresses

The MAC address table stores all the MAC addresses that the switch knows.
The switch uses this table for forwarding traffic to specific devices, so it
does not rely solely on broadcasting traffic to every port for communication.
There are two ways to add addresses to the MAC address table:
• The switch can learn addresses and add them dynamically. Dynamic
entries remain in the table only while the associated node is active, and
they are deleted if the node is inactive for longer than a specified period
of time (age-out time; the default is 300 seconds).
• You can manually add MAC addresses to the table. These are called
static addresses, because they remain in the table until you remove
them, even if the associated node is inactive or taken off the network.
To add a static MAC address to the address table
1 Click the Configure Device menu, then click Forwarding and Filtering.
2 Click Static MAC Addresses.
3 Click Add.
4 In the MAC Address box, type the MAC address of a device on the
network. Do not include hyphens.
5 If port-based or tag-based (IEEE 802.1Q) VLANs are set up on the
switch, static MAC addresses are associated with specific VLANs.
Type the VLAN name (port-based VLANs) or VID (tag-based VLANs)
to associate with the MAC address.
6 In the Port number box, click a port number.
For the LX and SX optional modules, the port number is MP1; the FX
module has 2 ports, MP1 and MP2.
7 Click Add.