Using the Web Console
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Specifies the condition for filtering the packets:
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3.Click Apply.
The entry is added to the table.
4.To remove an entry, select the entry in the table and click Remove.
Priority Settings
The ZT 8101 switch allows you to assign specific levels of priority to traffic traversing the switch. Setting priority allows you to protect bandwidth for important nodes on your network. Frames that match the user defined criteria are given a priority tag. The switch supports four hardware priority levels per egress port, so the eight levels
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After an Ethernet frame has been prioritized, the switch forwards the Ethernet frame using the strict
Note: If flow control is enabled, a small of amount of low priority traffic may be forwarded before high priority traffic.
MAC Address Priority
You can specify a MAC address so that packets with this address are given special handling, either a higher or lower priority than normal traffic.
To set up a MAC address priority
1.In the left panel, click Priority Settings.
2.In the top panel, click MAC Address Priority.
3.Click New and configure these fields.
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