ZyXEL Communications ES3500 Series Filtering, 12.1 Configure a Filtering Rule, Name, Active, Action, Filtering, identification only, Advanced Application, specified in the MAC field

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Filtering

This chapter discusses MAC address port filtering.

12.1 Configure a Filtering Rule

Configure the Switch to filter traffic based on the traffic’s source, destination MAC addresses and/or VLAN group (ID).

Click Advanced Application > Filtering in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown next.

Figure 56 Advanced Application > Filtering

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 30 Advanced Application > FIltering

LABEL	DESCRIPTION
Active	Make sure to select this check box to activate your rule. You may temporarily deactivate a rule
	without deleting it by deselecting this check box.
Name	Type a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for this rule. This is for
	identification only.
Action	Select Discard source to drop frames from the source MAC address (specified in the MAC
	field). The Switch can still send frames to the MAC address.
	Select Discard destination to drop frames to the destination MAC address (specified in the
	MAC address). The Switch can still receive frames originating from the MAC address.
	Select Discard source and Discard destination to block traffic to/from the MAC address
	specified in the MAC field.

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