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DES-2218 Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Using the Console Interface
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segment to another. You can control the aging time, the amount of time an
entry can be idle before the switch removes it from the forwarding table, by:
1. Choose Spanning Tree Algorithm Parameters from the main menu.
2. Choose Protocol Parameters.
3. Enter the desired age time, in seconds.
Occasionally you may want to manually add entries to the switch’s
forwarding table. To add an entry for a station,
1. Choose Spanning Tree Algorithm Parameters from the main menu.
2. Choose Custom Filtering Table.
Figure 6-18. Custom Filtering Table
3. In the “Source Address” field, enter the Ethernet (MAC) address of
the station, in the form xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; each xx must be a
hexadecimal number between 00 and FF.
4. In the “Source Port” field, type in the port number to which the
station is to be connected. For example: the value “1” in this field
would represent that the station will be connected to port 1 of this
switch; the value “0” would represent that the station can not be