Chapter 10 Static MAC Forward Setup

Click Advanced Applications > Static MAC Forwarding in the navigation panel to display the configuration screen as shown.

Figure 50 Advanced Application > Static MAC Forwarding

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 23 Advanced Application > Static MAC 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

Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes for this static MAC

 

address forwarding rule.

 

 

MAC Address

Enter the MAC address in valid MAC address format, that is, six

 

hexadecimal character pairs.

 

Note: Static MAC addresses do not age out.

 

 

VID

Enter the VLAN identification number.

 

 

Port

Enter the port where the MAC address entered in the previous field will be

 

automatically forwarded.

 

 

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 begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to reset the fields to the factory defaults.

 

 

Index

Click an index number to modify a static MAC address rule for a port.

 

 

Active

This field displays whether this static 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 this

 

static MAC address-forwarding rule.

 

 

MAC Address

This field displays the MAC address that will be forwarded and the VLAN

 

identification number to which the MAC address belongs.

 

 

VID

This field displays the ID number of the VLAN group.

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