Chapter 11 Static Multicast Forward Setup

Click Advanced Application > Static Multicast Forwarding to display the configuration screen as shown.

Figure 55 Advanced Application > Static Multicast Forwarding

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 29 Advanced Application > Static Multicast 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

Type a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for this static multicast MAC

 

address forwarding rule. This is for identification only.

 

 

MAC Address

Enter a multicast MAC address which identifies the multicast group. The last binary bit of the

 

first octet pair in a multicast MAC address must be 1. For example, the first octet pair

 

00000001 is 01 and 00000011 is 03 in hexadecimal, so 01:00:5e:00:00:0A and

 

03:00:5e:00:00:27 are valid multicast MAC addresses.

 

 

VID

You can forward frames with matching destination MAC address to port(s) within a VLAN

 

group. Enter the ID that identifies the VLAN group here. If you don’t have a specific target

 

VLAN, enter 1.

 

 

Port

Enter the port(s) where frames with destination MAC address that matched the entry above

 

are forwarded. You can enter multiple ports separated by (no space) comma (,) or hyphen (-

 

). For example, enter “3-5” for ports 3, 4, and 5. Enter “3,5,7” for ports 3, 5, and 7.

 

 

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 to their last saved values.

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Index

Click an index number to modify a static multicast MAC address rule for port(s).

 

 

Active

This field displays whether a static multicast 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 a static multicast MAC

 

address-forwarding rule.

 

 

MAC Address

This field displays the multicast MAC address that identifies a multicast group.

 

 

VID

This field displays the ID number of a VLAN group to which frames containing the specified

 

multicast MAC address will be forwarded.

 

 

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