Alcatel AST570, User Manual

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The 'Bridging Ports'
table
'Bridging Ports' table
components
6 Configuration and Use - Transparent Bridging
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The following figure shows the 'Bridging Ports' table:
Field Description
Intf
Interface Indicates the interface name for the Bridging entry.
Note : In most cases, the interface name will be the same as
the phonebook entry name.
Address Indicates the phonebook entry used by the Bridging entry.
State Indicates the state of the Bridging entry.
Note : Unless the interface is created via the CLI, Bridging
entries are always in state connected, i.e. attached to a
Bridge port.
Port Indicates the name of the Bridge port on the WAN side:
wan0, wan1, wan2, ...
Encap
Encapsulation Indicates the applied encapsulation method for Ethernet
frames(*) on the VC.
The
AST570 supports both the LLC/SNAP method (default)
and the VCMUX method.
FCS Indicates whether the last four bytes of the Ethernet frames
are preserved or not. By default the FCS is set to
NO
.
Note : You can set the FCS to
YES
via the CLI.
(*) Ethernet frames are also referred to as Medium Access Control (MAC)
frames or IEEE802.3 frames.