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Chapter 5: FN10 Filters

•Multicast traffic from any station (MAC layer address). Multicast packets are those destined for more than one address.

Each source address can be assigned one of the following restrictions:

•Filter all packets from this source address.

•Filter all multicast packets from this source address.

NOTE

You cannot configure Bridge Address Table filters using the Local Console Manager (LCM).

The capacity of the FN10 Bridge Address Table is 8,192 entries. The majority of entries are dynamically learned addresses. However, 200 entries can be static (manually entered).

Table 5-1 shows what a dynamically learned entry in the FN10 Bridge Address Table might look like.

Table 5-1 Representation of an Internal Bridge Address Table Entry

	Port			Multicast
MAC address		Age	Source filter	source
	(segment)
				filter
00:01:02:03:04:05	3	26	OFF	OFF

Where:

MAC address – Indicates the Ethernet address.

Port (segment) – Indicates the physical Ethernet segment port associated with the MAC address. The segment port number is automatically learned for dynamic addresses, but can be manually entered as a static address.

Age – Indicates when a frame from the device was last received by the FN10.

Source filter – Indicates the flags used solely for filtering. They instruct the FN10 to filter (ON) or not filter (OFF) packets generated by specified MAC address.

Multicast source filter – Indicates the flags used solely for filtering. They instruct the FN10 to filter (ON) or not filter (OFF) multicast packets generated by specified MAC address.

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