Gigabit Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Using the Console Interface
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To make a change to the Custom Forwarding Table, choose
either
Add
or
Remove
in the
Action
field. Then enter the
MAC
Address
, the
Port
number that permanently forwards traffic
from the specified device, regardless of the device’s network
activity or current network congestion, and press APPLY.
The
Custom Filtering Table
contains filtering information
configured into the Switch by (local or network) management
specifying the set of ports to which packets received from specific
ports and containing specific destination addresses are not allowed
to be forwarded. You can use the
Custom Filtering Table
for
network security purposes thereby discarding unwanted addresses
from the Forwarding Table.
Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two
important features of the
Custom Filtering Table
. They are
defined here briefly as follows.
Dynamic Filtering
is defined when
a dynamic entry is created by the Learning Process as a result of
observation of network traffic in the Filtering Database.
Static
Filtering
is defined as static entries that may be added and
removed from the Filtering Database by the user. They are not
automatically removed by any timeout mechanism.
To access the
Custom Filtering Table
, select
Configure
Forwarding and Filtering Table
from the
System
Configuration
menu. Then select
Custom Filtering Table
from the bottom of the
Filtering and Forwarding Table
Configuration
screen. The following screen appears: