3Com S330 manual Configuring the Ethernet Card

112CHAPTER 4: CONFIGURING PATHBUILDER S330/S310 MODULES, PORTS, AND APPLICATIONS

3Select [2] Card Information to display the Ethernet Card Configuration menu, shown in Figure 83. This menu displays the current Ethernet card configuration and provides an option that allows you to set the administrative status for the Ethernet card.

Figure 83 Configuring the Ethernet Card

4Select [1] Set Admin. Status to put the Ethernet card in service or out of service.

Configuring the Bridge All of the virtual channels assigned to a particular slot and port form a network bridge. In order to enable the Ethernet port to operate, you must configure the bridge with the required user-filtering options and an aging timer value.

The aging timer value you specify will be listed in the Age column on the List Forwarding Table. The system deletes station address entries when they have had no traffic for the specified period of time. To keep addresses in the List Forwarding table permanently, set the Aging Timer to Permanent. For further details about the List Forwarding Table, see “Viewing the List Forwarding Table” later in this chapter.

To configure the bridge, follow these steps:

1From the Configuration Management menu, select [3] Manage Bridge to display the Manage Bridge menu, shown in Figure 84.