5.7 Device Control Menu

The Device Control menu is used to control a broad range of functions, including port mode, port mirroring, port trunking, Spanning Tree, Virtual LANs, IP subnets, multicast filtering, and routing protocols. Each of the setup screens provided by these configuration menus is described in the following sections.

Menu

Description

Layer 2 Menu

Configures port communication mode, mirror ports, port trunking, and static

 

addresses.

Bridge Menu

Configures the Spanning Tree Protocol for the bridge or for specific ports, GMRP

 

and GVRP for automatic registration of multicast and VLAN groups, traffic class

 

priority threshold, and address aging time.

VLAN Menu

Configures VLAN settings for specific ports, and defines the port membership for

 

VLAN groups.

IGMP Snooping

Configures IGMP multicast filtering.

Configuration *1

 

IP Menu2

Configures the subnets for each VLAN group, global configuration for ARP and

 

Proxy ARP, unicast and multicast protocols, static ARP table entries, static routes

 

and the default route.

Security Menu

Configures MAC and IP*2 Address filtering.

1:Only displayed for Layer 2 mode of WGS3-2620.

2:Only displayed for WGS3-404 and multilayer mode of WGS3-2620.

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