10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Using the Console Interface
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The
Source Address
heading displays a total of ten (10)
addresses at a time; while a total of 40 MAC addresses may be
inputted for all of the ports. The
Source Port
heading displays
the respective port you would like associate with an inputted
Source Address
.
Occasionally you may want to manually add entries to the switch’s
forwarding table. To add an entry for a station,
1.
Choose Spanning Tree Algorithm Parameters from the main
menu.
2.
Choose Custom Filtering Table.
Figure 6-19. Custom Filtering Table
3.
In the “
Source Address
” field, enter the Ethernet (MAC)
address of the station, in the form
xx
:
xx
:
xx
:
xx
:
xx
:
xx
; each xx
must be a hexadecimal number between 00 and FF.
4.
In the “
Source Port
” field, type in the port number to
which the station is to be connected. For example: the value
“1” in this field would represent that the station will be
connected to port 1 of this switch; the value “0” would