TP-Link TL-SG2008 manual MAC Address, Bound MAC address, Way, Port

Broadcast:Displays the number of good broadcast packets received or transmitted on the port. The error frames are not counted in.

Multicast:Displays the number of good multicast packets received or transmitted on the port. The error frames are not counted in.

Unicast:Displays the number of good unicast packets received or transmitted on the port. The error frames are not counted in.

Alignment Errors: Displays the number of the received packets that have a bad Frame Check Sequence (FCS) with a non-integral octet (Alignment Error). The length of the packet is between 64 bytes and 1518 bytes.

UndersizePkts: Displays the number of the received packets (excluding error packets) that are less than 64 bytes long.

Pkts64Octets:Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are 64 bytes long.

Pkts65to127Octets: Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are between 65 and 127 bytes long.

Pkts128to255Octets: Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are between 128 and 255 bytes long.

Pkts256to511Octets: Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are between 256 and 511 bytes long.

Pkts512to1023Octets: Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are between 512 and 1023 bytes long.

PktsOver1023Octets: Displays the number of the received packets (including error packets) that are over 1023 bytes.

Collisions:Displays the number of collisions experienced by a port during packet transmissions.

5.4 MAC Address

The main function of the switch is forwarding the packets to the correct ports based on the destination MAC address of the packets. Address Table contains the port-based MAC address information, which is the base for the switch to forward packets quickly. The entries in the Address Table can be updated by auto-learning or configured manually. Most the entries are generated and updated by auto-learning. In the stable networks, the static MAC address entries can facilitate the switch to reduce broadcast packets and enhance the efficiency of packets forwarding remarkably. The address filtering feature allows the switch to filter the undesired packets and forbid its forwarding so as to improve the network security.

The types and the features of the MAC Address Table are listed as the following:

			Being	kept after		Relationship between the
Type	Configuration	Aging out	reboot			bound MAC address and
	Way		(if the	configuration		the port
			is saved)
Static	Manually	No	Yes		The bound MAC address
Address Table	configuring					can not be learned by the
						other ports in the same
						VLAN.
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