Device Control
Switch Configuration
Figure 4-9. Switch Configuration Menu
x Spanning Tree Enable State - By default, Spanning Tree is disabled on the
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
16.65hours. 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
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