Asante Technologies 1012 manual Bridge Forwarding Table, About Forwarding

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Configuration Menu System

Enter control-uto erase the field, enter the new value, and press return.

Enter control-z to return to the Bridge Parameters Menu.

Bridge Forwarding Table

About Forwarding

Forwarding is the process of passing packets from one bridge port to the other.To do this, the bridge must know what devices are on each of the segments its ports are connected to.The bridge main- tains this device location data in its forwarding table.

The AsantéBridge 1012 acquires forwarding table data in two ways:

❏Device segment locations can be manually loaded into the table, using either the VT100 local management port or AsantéView 2.2.

❏Device locations can be dynamically learned by the bridge as part of normal bridge operations.

Table Functions

Use Left/Right Arrow Keys to select

Table Data Fields

Use Up/Down Arrow Keys to select

Figure 3-17 Bridge Forwarding Table

The Bridge Forwarding Table can hold as many as 4096 Ethernet addresses, with an individual configuration associated with each address.

The table provides several tools for working with forwarding addresses:

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