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24-port NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
88 Using the Console Interface
device through a specific port, even after long periods of
network inactivity or during times of network congestion.
♦ Action Choose to Add or Remove an entry from the
table.
♦ MAC Address a total of ten destination addresses per
page will be seen. The Switch can hold up to 256
entries. This is the MAC address of the device that
you are creating a permanent forwarding address for.
♦ Port heading a port number will be displayed for
each corresponding destination address. The switch
will always forward traffic to the specified device
through this port.
♦ Status The status of the static forwarding table entry
can be “in use” or “not apply.” “Not apply” means that
there is a static filter for the same MAC address.
Static filters always take precedence over static
forwarding entries. The switch will automatically
upgrade the Status to “in use” once the static filter is
removed.
Configure MAC Address Filtering
The Static Filtering Table contains filtering information
configured into the Switch by (local or network)
management specifying destination addresses which are
not allowed to be forwarded. The switch will check both
the destination and source MAC addresses on all packets.
To access the Static Filtering Table, select Configure
Filtering and Forwarding Table from the Configuration
menu. Then select Configure MAC Address Filtering
from the bottom of the Configure Filtering and
Forwarding table screen. The following screen appears: