Milan Technology MIL-S3580 Device Control

Device Control

Figure 4-9. Switch Configuration Menu

x Spanning Tree Enable State - By default, Spanning Tree is disabled on the

MIL-S3580. The switch uses the IEEE802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP),

when enabled, to ensure that only one path at a time is active between any two

nodes on the network.

x Dynamic Entry Aging Time - This is the time, in seconds, that the switch

keeps an address of a device in the MAC address table. 300 seconds or 5

minutes is the default. The time can be from 5 seconds to 999 seconds or

16.65 hours. A MAC address can also be entered in the static address table

and the MAC address will not age out.

x Broadcast Storm Prevention can be set to 6%, 20%, or Disable. The

percentage indicates the allowance against the capacity. When disabled, there

is no limitation on the incoming rate of broadcast/multicast traffic, otherwise

limitation on broadcast traffic will be set to the configured percentage.

x Ingress Filtering examines the tagged header of each tagged frame that

enters a port and determines whether the tagged frame and the port that

received the frame are members of the same VLAN. If they belong to the same

VLAN, the port accepts the frame. If they belong to different VLANs, the port