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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
Bridge Port Indicates the phonebook entry used by the Bridging entry.
Encap Indicates the applied encapsulation method for Ethernet
frames(*) on the VC.
The
STPro 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.
State Allows you to change the state of the individual LAN ports. It
can take following values:
Value Description
disabled
learning The Bridge port only submits
information to the filtering database.
It does not participate in the relaying
of frames.
forwarding
The Bridge port in this state, does not
participate in the relaying of frames,
nor in updating the filtering
database.
The Bridge port participates in the
relaying of frames.
Source MAC addresses of frames,
arriving in the Bridge via this port are
also stored in the filtering database.
By default, the sole configured Bridge port Br1 is disabled.
(*) Ethernet frames are also referred to as Medium Access Control (MAC)
frames or IEEE802.3 frames.