Olicom CrossFire 8730, Reference Manual

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CrossFire 8730 Switch Reference Guide, DOC-7047 v. 1.1 Switch Configuration
Dual Home FEP Addresses Configuration Screen
To open this screen do the following:
1. Starting from the main menu, select Configuration
→
Port Configuration.
2. You will be prompted for a port number. When you have entered the port
number, the Port Configuration screen for that port will be displayed.
3. On the Port Configuration screen, select Virtual Port Configuration...
4. On the Virtual Port Configuration screen, select Dual Home FEP Addresses
Configuration.
The CrossFire 8730 supports “dual home FEP”, which allows duplicate MAC
addresses in a source-route bridging Token-Ring network. This is often used by
IBM mainframes connected to a Token-Ring network, and is therefore important to
the migrating customer who uses such a solution.
For each Virtual Port on each Fast Ethernet port, 10 addresses can be configured as
Dual Home FEP addresses. A constant list of 10 MAC addresses numbered 1-10 is
shown when this menu is opened. Addresses which consist entirely of zeros
represent empty entries.
To add or change an address, highlight the address, press
ENTER
, and then either
enter the new MAC address or simply press
ENTER
once more to enter a NULL
address (empty entry).