Olicom 8605, 8600 manual Switch reserves 31 addresses for ports

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assigned Universal Administrated Address UAA) or configured (the Local Administrated Address LAA). To configure a LAA address, use the Switch Configuration screen from a console session or an SNMP based management tool. Note that a restart is necessary when changing the base MAC address.

The greeting screen on the console will always show the current active Switch base Address.

The switch reserves 31 addresses for ports.

The Token-Ring ports on a switch switch will be assigned MAC addresses using the following scheme:

•BASE Module port 1- 20 Will be assigned Switch Base Address + port number

•	LEFT UEM port 1-4	Will be assigned Switch Base Address + 20 +
		port number
•	RIGHT UEM port 1-4	Will be assigned Switch Base Address + 24 +
		port number

OR:

A Token-Ring port will be assigned a MAC address, which is Switch Base Address

+the port number displayed on the port configuration screen (or interface table for SNMP).

This MAC address is used for the Token-Ring MAC protocol, and for the spanning tree protocol.

The switch reserves 63 addresses for TrBRF ( VLAN).

Each VLAN has an attached Bridge relay function (TrBRF) and a Management entity (IP-protocol stack), and consequently it needs a MAC Address. In the switch, these two logical units use the same address, however this address must be unique in the network. This is ensured by assigning MAC address to TrBRF’s from the Switch Base Address + 32 (0x20) and upwards. The switch is designed in such a way, that it operates with 63 active or preferred VLAN’s, implying that 63 MAC addresses need to be reserved for TrBRF.

Summarizing each CrossFire 8600 reserve: Switch Base Address + 31 Addresses for Token-Ring ports + 63 MAC Addresses for TrBRFs = 95, which is rounded up to 96 or hexadecimal 0x60.

The MAC address of the default TrBRF (trnet-default) will always be the switch base address + 32. If the switch operates in a stack, only one of the switches will operate the bridge relay function. Hence the MAC address of the default TrBRF will be the base address of the stackmaster + 32. The stackmaster is determined by software, when the stack consists of two switches back to back and by the port

CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641 Switch Configuration