9-20 User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1
Chapter 9
3. In the VLAN field, select a VLAN for this entry.
4. In the Port Binding field, select Forward or Filter:
■Forward—Frames that have this source or destination MAC
address are forwarded. If you select Forward, you must enter the
port that you want associated with this MAC address.
■Filter—Frames that have this source or destination MAC address
are dropped.
5. In the Persistence field, select Permanent or Ageout:
■Permanent—The address is saved in nonvolatile memory and is
not aged out of the AFT.
■Ageout—Address is cleared from the AFT w hen the age time
interval expires. All dynamically learned entries are set to Ageout.
This setting ensures that MAC addresses that are not active on the
network do not remain in the AFT in definitely.
6. In the Priority field, select a priority level for packets tha t ar e for ward ed
to this MAC address. Options are None, Normal, and High.
High priority addresses move to the front of the switch packet buffers
automatically.
* Note: This field applies only to 50-series mo dules.
7. In the SA-Priority field, select the priority that you wan t associated with
frames that have this source MAC addr ess:
■None
■Aft—Uses the priority that is assigned to the MAC address in the
AFT. If you select this option, you must select a numerical priority
for the MAC address. Priorities range from 0 to 7.
■Max-port-aft—Determines the priority of a frame by using the
higher of the:
—Physical port priority or tag priority
—Source MAC address priority
If you select this option, you must select a numerical prior ity fo r th e
MAC address. Priorities range fro m 0 to 7.
■Port—Uses the priority of the physical port, Cisco ISL tag, or
802.1p tag.
* Note: This field applies only to 80-series mo dules.