Cabletron Systems Fast Network 10, User Manual

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Chapter 5: FN10 Filters
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• Multicast traffic from any station (MAC layer address). Multicast
packets are those destined for more than one address.
Each source address can be assigned one of the following restrictions:
• Filter all packets from this source address.
• Filter all multicast packets from this source address.
The capacity of the FN10 Bridge Address Table is 8,192 entries. The
majority of entries are dynamically learned addresses. However, 200
entries can be static (manually entered).
Table 5-1 shows what a dynamically learned entry in the FN10 Bridge
Address Table might look like.
Where:
NOTE
You cannot configure Bridge Address Table filters using the
Local Console Manager (LCM).
Table 5-1 Representation of an Internal Bridge Address Table Entry
MAC address
Port
(segment)
Age Source filter
Multicast
source
filter
00:01:02:03:04:05 3 26 OFF OFF
MAC address
–
Indicates the Ethernet address.
Port (segment)
–
Indicates the physical Ethernet segment port associated
with the MAC address. The segment port number is automatically learned for
dynamic addresses, but can be manually entered as a static address.
Age
–
Indicates when a frame from the device was last received by the
FN10.
Source filter
–
Indicates the flags used solely for filtering. They instruct the
FN10 to filter (ON) or not filter (OFF) packets generated by specified MAC
address.
Multicast source filter
–
Indicates the flags used solely for filtering. They
instruct the FN10 to filter (ON) or not filter (OFF) multicast packets generated
by specified MAC address.