Dual Trunk E1 Router

Configuring Bridging

Table 5-2 Configuring Bridging packet processing mode

ProcedureDescription

Setting Bridging over Frame Relay or Multilink Frame Relay

1.Select Menu-0A

2.Set Traffic Type to Frame Relay

Encapsulation of bridged frames is RFC2427 compliant.

In multilink mode, the frame header is prefixed with a Multilink Frame Relay header

1.Select Menu-$A

2.Set Packet Processing Mode to Bridging.

 

Packets received from the WAN are automatically forwarded to the Ethernet port

 

In bridging mode Menu $ will be reduced to the following menu selections:

 

A.Unit Routing Configuration

 

F. Ethernet ARP Table

 

G. Mac Bridge

 

 

Setting Bridging over

1.Select Menu-0A

PPP or MLPPP

2.Set Traffic Type to PPP

 

 

1.Select Menu-$A

 

2.Set Packet Processing Mode to Bridging.

 

Packets received from the WAN are automatically forwarded to the Ethernet port

 

In bridging mode Menu $ will be reduced to the following menu selections:

 

A.Unit Routing Configuration

 

F. Ethernet ARP Table

 

G. Mac Bridge

 

 

Enabling Promiscuous

By default in Bridging mode the unit is configured with promiscuous mode enabled.

mode

This mode allows the unit to receive all packets from the LAN network.

 

 

Setting bridging route

Entries in the MAC bridge table are removed automatically when they are inactive

aging time

for period of time defined as “Bridge Route Aging Time”. By default the aging time

 

is 300 seconds and can be set to up to 1,000,000 seconds. To change the default:

 

1.Select Menu-$A

 

2.Set Bridge Route Aging Time in seconds

 

The setting will take effect immediately.

 

 

Configuring static MAC Bridge Routes

Enter up to 50 entries in the MAC to port map table. The entries will be stored in non-volatile RAM (NVRAM)

50

SALES: 0870 90 10 750

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Black Box LRU4240 manual Configuring Bridging, Configuring static MAC Bridge Routes, Select Menu-$A