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Intel Express 460T Standalone Switch Users Guide

Note

To view the switch’s address table, click the Monitor menu, click Advanced, then click MAC Address Table.

Static MAC Addresses

The MAC address table stores all the MAC addresses known by the switch. The switch uses this table for forwarding traffic to specific devices to avoid broadcasting traffic to every port for communication.

There are two ways to add addresses to the MAC address table:

The switch can learn addresses and add them dynamically. Dynamic entries remain in the table only while the associated node is active. They are deleted if the node is inactive for longer than a specified period of time, known as the age-out time; the default is 300 seconds.

You can manually add MAC addresses to the table. These are called static addresses, because they remain in the table until you remove them, even if the associated node is inactive or taken off the network.

To add a static MAC address to the address table

1Click the Configure Device menu, then click Forwarding and Filtering.

2Click Static MAC Addresses.

3Click Add.

4In the MAC Address box, type the MAC address of a device on the network. Do not include hyphens.

5If port-based or tag-based (IEEE 802.1Q) VLANs are set up on the switch, static MAC addresses are associated with specific VLANs. Type the VLAN name (port-based VLANs) or VID (tag-based VLANs) to associate with the MAC address.

6In the Port number box, click a port number. The port number for the optional LX and SX modules is MP1; the port numbers for the FX module are MP1 and MP2.

7Click Add.

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