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Configuration: MAC Table

20.1 Overview

This section provides information for MAC Table in Configuration.

The MAC Table screen (a MAC table is also known as a filtering database) shows how frames are forwarded or filtered across the Switch’s ports. When a device (which may belong to a VLAN group) sends a packet which is forwarded to a port on the Switch, the MAC address of the device is shown on the Switch’s MAC Table. It also shows whether the MAC address is dynamic (learned by the Switch) or static (manually entered in the Static MAC Forwarding screen).

20.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

The MAC Table screen (Section 20.2 on page 119) displays Static MAC, Filtering MAC, and Dynamic MAC settings.

20.2 MAC Table

20.2.1 The Static MAC Screen

Use this screen to view Static MAC addresses settings. Click Configuration > MAC Table > Static MAC to open this screen.

Figure 100 Configuration > MAC Table > Static MAC

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 82 Configuration > MAC Table > Static MAC

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Static MAC

 

 

 

Add

Click Add to create a new Static MAC entry.

 

 

MAC Address

Displays the object MAC address from which this incoming frame came.

 

 

VLAN

Displays the VLAN group to which this frame belongs.

 

 

 

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