Mac Alias; Gvrp Configuration - Black Box 12-Port 1000BASE-TX L2 Managed PoE Switch User Manual

4.13.5 MAC A
LIAS
MAC Alias function is used to let you assign MAC address a plain English name. This will help you tell which
MAC address belongs to which user in the illegal access report. At the initial time, it shows all pairs of the
existed alias name and MAC address.
There are three MAC alias functions in this function folder, including MAC Alias Add, MAC Alias Edit and
MAC Alias Delete. You can click Create/Edit button to add/modify a new or an existed alias name for a
specified MAC address, or mark an existed entry to delete it. Alias name must be composed of A-Z, a-z and 0-9
only and has a maximal length of 15 characters.
Parameter
MAC Alias Create/Edit or
Delete
MAC Address
Alias

4.14 GVRP Configuration

GVRP is an application based on Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), mainly used to automatically
and dynamically maintain the group membership information of the VLANs. The GVRP offers the function
providing the VLAN registration service through a GARP application. It makes use of GARP Information
Declaration (GID) to maintain the ports associated with their attribute database and GARP Information
Propagation (GIP) to communicate among switches and end stations. With GID information and GIP, GVRP
state machine maintain the contents of Dynamic VLAN Registration Entries for each VLAN and propagate
these information to other GVRP-aware devices to setup and update their knowledge database, the set of
VLANs associated with currently active members, and through which ports these members can be reached.
In GVRP Configuration function folder, there are three functions supported, including GVRP Config, GVRP
Counter and GVRP Group explained below.
Table 4-32. MAC Alias screen options.
Description
In the MAC Alias function, MAC Alias Add/Edit function is used to
let you add or modify an association between MAC address and a
plain English name. User can click Create/Edit button to add a
new record with name.
As to MAC Alias Delete function is used to let you remove an alias
name to a MAC address. You can select an existed MAC address
or alias name to remove.
It is a six-byte long Ethernet hardware address and usually
expressed by hex and separated by hyphens. For example,
00 – 40 - C7 - D6 – 00 - 01
MAC alias name you assign.
If there are too many MAC addresses learned in the table, we
recommend you inputting the MAC address and alias name
directly.
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