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Accessing the MIB I, II Tool................................................................................2-30
Accessing Bridge Management..........................................................................2-30
Performing Source Routing Configuration for a Port.....................................2-30
Viewing a Bridge Port’s Source Address List..................................................2-31
Enabling/Disabling Bridging for TSX-1620 Ports...........................................2-32
Enabling and Disabling Bridge Ports.........................................................2-32
Bridging Basics.............................................................................................................. 3-1
Transparent Bridging.............................................................................................3-2
Source Route Bridging...........................................................................................3-2
Source Route Transparent Bridges.......................................................................3-3
Accessing the Bridge Traffic View Window..............................................................3-3
Navigating Through the Bridge Traffic View.....................................................3-4
Bridge Traffic View Front Panel...........................................................................3-6
The Bridge Port Display........................................................................................3-7
Choosing Bridge Traffic Information: Bridge Traffic View Buttons................3-8
Using the Detail View Window.................................................................................3-11
The Bridge Status Window........................................................................................3-12
The Bridge Statistics Window....................................................................................3-13
The Filtering Database Window............................................................................... 3-15
Viewing the Filtering Database..........................................................................3-16
Changing the Filtering Database Dynamic Ageing Time.............................. 3-19
Changing Forwarding and Static Database Entries........................................3-20
Deleting a Static Table Entry.......................................................................3-22
Finding a Filtering Database MAC Address....................................................3-22
The Spanning Tree Protocol Window.......................................................................3-22
Changing Spanning Tree Parameters................................................................3-27
The Spanning Tree Port Parameters Window.........................................................3-27
Changing a Port’s STA Parameters....................................................................3-29
The Source Routing Configuration Window...........................................................3-29
Changing Source Routing Port Parameters..................................................... 3-32
Creating Bridge Traffic Charts, Graphs and Meters...............................................3-33
Configuring Forwarding Thresholds....................................................................... 3-34
Viewing the Forwarding Log.....................................................................................3-37
Changing Polling Intervals........................................................................................ 3-39
Enabling and Disabling Ports....................................................................................3-40
Enabling and Disabling a Transparent Bridge Port........................................3-40
Enabling and Disabling a Source Routing Bridge Port.................................. 3-41
Enabling and Disabling Both Transparent and Source Routing
on a Bridge Port.............................................................................................3-42