D-Link DES-3624 - Switch - Stackable User manual - page 105
Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
port. The higher the port priority, the more chance the
bridge has of becoming the root port. Zero is the
highest priority.
Note:If a port is a member of a trunk group but is not
the anchor, the items shown in the above table will
be read-only and the values will be the same as
those for the anchor port.
Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table
When a packet hits the Switch, it looks in the filtering and
forwarding tables to decide what to do with the packet; either
to filter it off the network, or to forward it through the port on
which its destination lies.
Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two
important features of the Custom Filtering Table. They are
defined here briefly as follows. Dynamic Filtering is defined
when a dynamic entry is created by the Learning Process as a
result of observation of network traffic in the Filtering
Database. Static Filtering is defined as static entries that may
be added and removed from the Filtering Database by the user.
They are not automatically removed by any timeout
mechanism.
The Configure Filtering and Forwarding table screen allows
you to stop or start address learning, change the way the
Switch treats MAC address table entries, and select an age-out
time of the MAC address in the selected address table. This
screen also permits you to access three additional
configuration screens from the menu at the bottom of the
window.
Choose Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table from the
System Configuration menu to access the followingscreen:
Using the Console Interface
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