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Absolute Masks
ignore all traffic to or from the masked host or subnet regardless of the
connection.
To set up a Paired or Absolute Mask:
From the Setup and Configuration
Menu,
Click on
-> Manage Priority
->
[
Manage Traffic Hidden from
Equalizing
].
Masks can be set for an
individual IP address, an entire subnet,
or any legal subnet value 1-32.
Note: In most cases, you will not need
to use masking. NetEqualizer is
typically setup on your Internet link,
and does not see Local Traffic.
Note: If you plan to set up a large
number of subnet-ranged Masks (>=32
subnet ranges), you will need to set
several tuning parameters. Please see
Appendix #5
for detailed instructions.
VLAN Masking
In
Software Update 5.8
, we expanded our masking feature to enable you to create VLAN
Masks, using VLAN IDs. Our new VLAN Masking feature enables you to designate
entire
local
VLANs
that you want masked from Equalizing. To implement this feature, follow the
instructions below.
From the Maintenance and Reference Menu,
Click on ->
Maintenance
->
[
Run
a Command
].
To create a VLAN Mask
(also known as VLAN Exclusion):
Type in:
/sbin/brctl vlanexclusion my #
This will exclude this VLAN ID (#) and store this VLAN # in the VLAN Exclusion Table. To
control what the VLAN Exclusion Table does:
Type in:
/sbin/brctl vlanflag my [0,1,2,3]
[0,1,2,3] Values
0 = Turn off the feature (VLAN Masking is off).
1 = Mask all VLAN IDs in the table (
the specified VLANs are NOT equalized
).
2 = Mask all VLAN IDs EXCEPT what is in the table (
the specified VLANs ARE equalized
).
3 = Clear out the table and turn off the feature.
Note: Three (3) is different than 0 because zero (0) just turns off the feature without
clearing the table. If you used zero (0) and then set it to 1 again, the members would stay
the same.
