Avocent Cyclades-PR4000 installation manual Transparent Bridge Protocol

Cyclades-PR4000

The Transparent Bridge Protocol

The Transparent Bridge Protocol can be used in conjunction with either IP or IPX. A detailed explanation of its use appears in section 4.6 of the CyROS Reference Guide.

Transparent Bridge Menu CONFIG=>INTERFACE=>SWAN=>NETWORK PROTOCOL=>TRANSPARENT BRIDGE

Parameter	Description
Status	Activates the Transparent Bridge on this interface.
Port Priority	For the Spanning Tree Algorithm, a priority is given to each link in the router and to
	each router in the network. See CONFIG=>TRANSPARENT BRIDGE
	=>SPANNING TREE in the CyROS Reference Guide for more information.
Incoming Rule List Name	Transparent Bridge rule list name for incoming packets. Note: Rule lists for
	Transparent Bridge and IP are created separately. See section 4.7 in the CyROS
	Reference Guide for instructions on how this rule list is created.
Outgoing Rule List Name	Filter rule list name for outgoing packets. See section 4.7 in the CyROS Reference
	Guide for instructions on how this rule list is created.

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