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Waters Network Systems
User’s Manual
Page 66
GSM-2116 and GSM-2124
Figure 5.39 – MAC Maintenance
Function Name:
Static Forward
Function Description:
Static Forward is a function that allows the user in the static forward table to access a specified port
of the switch. The static forward table associated with a specified port of a switch is set up by
manually inputting MAC address and an alias’ name.
When a MAC address is assigned to a specific port, all of the switch’s traffic is sent to this MAC
address will be forwarded to this port.
For adding a MAC address entry in the allowed table, fill in four parameters: MAC address,
associated port, VID and Alias. Select the existing MAC address entry, and select
Delete
for removal.
Parameter description:
MAC:
Six-byte Ethernet hardware address and usually expressed by hex and separated by hyphens.
For example,
00 – 40 - C7 - D6 – 00 - 01
Port No:
Port number of the switch. It is 1~8.
VID:
VLAN identifier. This will be filled only when tagged VLAN is used. Valid range is 1 ~ 4094.
Alias:
Assigned MAC alias name.