Asante Technologies 8000 user manual Displaying the Forwarding Database, Age-out Time

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Configuration

Current Settings

Table 3-9 explains each setting on the Forwarding Database Configuration Menu.

Setting

Description

 

 

Age-out Time

The number of seconds that addresses are retained in the table.

 

The default is 300 seconds. The range is from 10 to 1,000,000.

 

 

MAC Address Count

The number of entries currently in the MAC Address Table.

 

 

IP Address Count

The number of entries in the MAC Address Table that contain a

 

corresponding IP address.

 

 

Table 3-9 Forwarding Database Configuration Menu settings

Displaying the Forwarding Database

Use the following procedure to view the Unicast Forwarding Database table.

1 Open the Unicast Forwarding Database Configuration Menu by typing d in the Configuration Menu.

2 Type either a, p, or v, depending on the range of MAC addresses you want to view.

Type a to display the MAC addresses of all ports on the IntraCore 8000.

Type p to specify a port, then see the MAC addresses for that port only.

Type v to specify a VLAN, then see the MAC addresses for the member ports of that VLAN only.

3 At the prompt which appears, type y to see IP addresses in the display or type n to see the display without IP addresses, then press Return. The selected display appears.

Examples of the Unicast Forwarding Database table are shown in Figure 3- 18 (all ports, without IP displayed) and Figure 3-19 (one port, without IP displayed).

KNote: When the IP addresses are displayed, the age and priority are not displayed, as shown in Figure 3-19.

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Asante Technologies 8000 user manual Displaying the Forwarding Database, Age-out Time