Chapter 10 Filtering

Table 22

Filtering (continued)

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

Action

 

Select Discard source to drop frame 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.

MAC

 

Type a MAC address in valid MAC address format, that is, six hexadecimal character

 

 

pairs to apply the filter rule to the specified MAC address and VLAN group

 

 

 

VID

 

Type the VLAN group identification number.

 

 

 

Add

 

Click Add to insert the entry in the summary table below and save your changes to the

 

 

switch’s run-time memory. The switch loses these changes 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 your previous configuration.

 

 

 

Clear

 

Click Clear to clear the fields to the factory defaults.

 

 

 

10.3 Viewing and Editing Filter Rules

To view a summary of the rule configuration, scroll down to the summary table at the bottom of the Filtering screen.

To change the settings of a rule, click a number in the Index field.

Figure 48 Filtering: Summary Table

The following table describes the labels in the summary table.

Table 23 Filtering: Summary Table

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Index

This field displays the index number of the rule. Click an index number to edit the rule.

 

 

Active

This field displays Yes when the rule is activated and No when is it deactivated.

 

 

Name

This field displays the descriptive name for this rule. This is for identification purpose only.

 

 

MAC

This field displays the source/destination MAC address.

Address

 

 

 

VID

This field displays the VLAN identification number to which the MAC address belongs.

 

 

Action

This field displays the filtering action (Discard both, Discard source or Discard dest.).

 

 

Delete

Check the rule(s) that you want to remove in the Delete column and then click the Delete

 

button.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to clear the selected checkboxes in the Delete column.

 

 

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