Advanced Bridging Options 5-9
In general, a packet received in a routed encapsulation (i.e., IPCP or routed RFC 1483 or RFC 1490) is delivered to the router. A packet received in a bridged encapsulation is passed to the bridge. If
Advanced Bridging The advanced bridging configuration options are located with the rest of
Optionsthe Local Site configuration options. However, these advanced bridging options function more as global parameters and therefore are applicable to bridging over the WAN as well as the LAN.
Most users do not need to change these values from the defaults.
To alter advanced bridging configurations:
1Go to the OfficeConnect Remote 840 home page and select Configuration > Local Site > Bridge.
2Click Advanced to access a screen containing the following field:
You may then enter the following fields:
■Aging Time — Time (seconds) for aging out forwarding table information.
■Forward Delay — Time (seconds) to wait while learning forwarding information before starting to bridge packets.
■Spanning Tree Priority — Priority of this spanning tree node. This is used for prioritizing the nodes when spanning tree is enabled (which is determined on either the Bridge Add or Bridge Modify/Delete screens).
