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4. Examine, and change if necessary, the items in ‘
Switch1
’:
Parameter
Global parameters for all 16 ports
VLAN
Virtual LAN configuration for all 16 ports
Environment
Monitor the switch environmental status
Port1 to Port14
Related HomePNA port setting
PortE1, PortE2
Related Fast Ethernet port setting
Setting Preferences
This section describes and explains how to set the individual item.
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Parameter
MAC age
: range 1~256 sec, setup the learned MAC address lifetime in E1 and E2 port. The learned MAC
entry will be flushed while the port doesn’t receive any Ethernet packet again with the same MAC source
within the period.
Fast Ethernet port (E1 and E2) in HomePNA switch has featured the MAC address auto-learning capability
as standard Ethernet switch. And other HomePNA port (1 to 14) works the same way in Smart mode. In
Static mode, the switch will audit the incoming packet and decide to accept it or not based on the presetting
MAC address table in each port. The HomePNA port will reject any packet with unauthorized source MAC
address in Static mode.
NOTE
: The following operation buttons work the same way for all windows in the configuration utility.
Read
-- read current setting from the switch.
