Chapter 12 Filtering

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 24 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 the 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 the 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.

 

 

VID

Type the VLAN group identification number.

 

 

Add

Click Add to 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.

 

 

Index

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

 

change the settings.

 

 

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 with the VLAN

Address

identification number to which the MAC address belongs.

 

 

VID

This field displays the VLAN group identification number.

 

 

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 checkbox(es) in the Delete column.

 

 

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