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Location
— The port (slot and port number) on which the destination MAC
address is located.
Age
— The age of the station address entry in the List Forwarding Table:
Permanent
(indicating that the entry is on the Bridge Static Table) or a specified
number of seconds. To specify the age, change the Aging Timer setting on the
Bridge Configuration menu. See “Configuring the Bridge” earlier in this chapter,
for details. The system uses the Age parameter to delete station address entries
when they have had no traffic for the specified period of time.
Constructing the Bridge Static Table
The Bridge Static Table is a list of destination MAC addresses that you want to
maintain in the List Forwarding Table and do not want to be purged by the aging
timer. The
Disp.
column for these addresses in the Forwarding Table reads
L-Static
to indicate that they will remain in the Forwarding Table until they are manually
deleted from the Static Table.
To construct the Bridge Static Table:
1
From the Bridge menu, select
[7] Static Table
to open the Bridge Static Table menu,
shown inFigure 100. From this menu, you can view the Static table and add and
delete entries from it.
Figure 100
Bridge Static Table Menu
2
Select
[2] Add MAC Address
. The Add MAC address screen appears. This screen
displays the following prompt:
Enter MAC Address (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX or <CR>):
3
Enter the destination MAC address that you want to add to the Bridge Static
Table. This address will not be purged when the List Forwarding Table is aged, and
the
Age
column on the List Forwarding Table will display
Permanent
for this entry.
