Using the Telnet Console

Address is allowed to remain idle). The aging time can be set to any value between 300— 1,000,000 seconds. The default is 300 seconds (5 minutes).

3. Highlight APPLY and press Enter.

To configure unicast MAC address forwarding

Unicast addresses are used to transmit messages from a single network device to another, single network device. You can specify to have these addresses statically forwarded to a specified port or to have the switch drop them.

1.From the Main Menu, select Forwarding Unicast MAC Address Settings and press Enter.

2.Toggle the Action field to Add/Modify and configure these fields.

Field

Description

 

 

MAC Address

Specifies the unicast MAC address in the packets.

 

 

Type

Specifies whether to forward the packets (Static) or to drop the packets

(BlackHole).

 

 

 

Port

Specifies which port to use for forwarding the packets. This option is not

available if BlackHole is specified as the type.

 

 

 

VLAN Name

Specifies the VLAN to which the MAC address belongs.

 

 

3.Highlight APPLY and press Enter.

4.To delete an entry, toggle the Action field to Delete, enter the MAC address, highlight APPLY, and press Enter.

To configure multicast MAC address forwarding

The multicast MAC address settings configure the switch to forward multicast packets from a specific MAC address to a specified VLAN. The port settings determine which ports can join the VLAN to forward the multicast packets.

1.From the Main Menu, select Forwarding Multicast MAC Address Settings and press

Enter.

2.Toggle the Action field to Add/Modify and configure these fields.

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

VLAN Name

Specifies the VLAN to which the multicast MAC packets are forwarded.

 

 

 

 

Multicast MAC Address

Specifies the MAC address of the source for the multicast packets.

 

 

 

 

 

Specifies how the port can join the multicast group. You can enter the

 

 

values for the individual ports directly from the keyboard or you can use the

 

 

spacebar to toggle between E, F, and -.

 

Port

• E (Engress)—Specifies that the port is a static member of the multicast

 

group.

 

 

 

 

• F (Forbidden)—Restricts the port from joining the multicast group.

 

 

• - (None)—Specifies that the port has no restrictions and that it can join

 

 

the multicast group dynamically.

 

 

 

3. Highlight APPLY and press Enter.

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ZT 8101 10/100 specifications

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