Bridge Mode

The bridge configuration allows you to control the system bridging parameters.

Figure 2-5 Bridge Mode Dialog

Item

Description

Aging Time

The timeout period, in seconds, for aging out dynamically learned forwarding

 

information from CPEs. The value 0 can be configured when aging is to be stopped.

 

Valid values: 10 ~ 1,000,000

 

 

Uplink Aging Time

The timeout period, in seconds, for aging out dynamically learned forwarding

 

information from uplink side port. This is used only for full bridge configuration. The

 

value 0 can be configured when aging is to be stopped. Default is set to 600 sec.

 

Valid values: 10 ~ 1,000,000

 

 

Dnlink (Slave) Aging Time

The timeout period, in seconds, for aging out dynamically learned forwarding

 

information learned from the downlink device. The value 0 can be configured when

 

aging is to be stopped. Default is set to 600 sec.

 

Valid values: 10 ~ 1,000,000

 

 

Flood Support

This is used to specify whether the unknown unicast packets are to be flooded or

 

not. The value for this is used along with per vlan configuration for flood support to

 

determine if flooding has to be done for unknown unicast packet.

 

 

Broadcast Support

This is used to specify whether the broadcasting is supported or not. The value for

 

this is used along with per vlan configuration broadcast support, to determine if

 

broadcasting has to be done for the broadcast packet.

 

 

Multicast Support

Used to specify whether the multicast is supported or not.

 

 

Multicast Drop

If multicast is not supported, this setting can specify whether the multicast packets are

 

to be dropped, or to be forwarded.

 

 

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