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Figure 43 Static MAC Forwarding

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 20 Static MAC Forwarding

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Active

Select this check box to activate your rule. You may temporarily deactivate a rule

 

without deleting it by clearing this check box.

Name

Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes for this static MAC address

 

forwarding rule.

MAC Address

Enter the MAC address in valid MAC address format, that is, six hexadecimal

 

character pairs.

 

Note: Static MAC addresses do not age out.

VID

Enter the VLAN identification number.

 

 

Port

Enter the port where the MAC address entered in the previous field will be

 

automatically forwarded.

Add

Click Add to save your rule to the switch’s run-time memory. The switch loses this rule

 

if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation panel to

 

save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields.

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Index

Click an index number to modify a static MAC address rule for a port.

 

 

Active

This field displays whether this static MAC address forwarding rule is active (Yes) or

 

not (No). You may temporarily deactivate a rule without deleting it.

Name

This field displays the descriptive name for identification purposes for this static MAC

 

address-forwarding rule.

MAC Address

This field displays the MAC address that will be forwarded and the VLAN identification

 

number to which the MAC address belongs.

VID

This field displays the ID number of the VLAN group.

 

 

Port

This field displays the port where the MAC address shown in the next field will be

 

forwarded.

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