Lucent Technologies P550 - Manual (Page 246)

Managing Address Forwarding Tables (Layer 2 & Layer 3)
14 -6 Cajun P550/P220 Switch Operation Guide
Adding Entries to the Address Forwarding Table Manually
Adding entries manually is useful when you want to ensure the address forwarding table
entries remain permanently.
To add an address manually:
1. In the Address Forwarding Table section of the Web Agent window, click Entry
Configuration. The Static Address Configuration dialog box opens.
2. In the MAC Address Value field, enter the MAC address that you want to add to
the table.
3. From the VLAN pull-down menu, select a VLAN for this entry.
4. From the Port Binding pull-down menu, select to forward or filter this port.
5. In the Port Binding field, enter the port that you want associated with this entry.
6. From the Priority pull-down menu, select a priority level for packets forward to
this MAC address. High priority addresses move to the front of the switch packet
buffers automatically.
7. Use Table 14-3 for configuring the persistence parameter:
8. Click APPLY to save your changes, or CANCEL to clear the dialog box fields.
Table 14-3. Entry Persistence
Parameter Definition
Permanent The address is saved in nonvolatile memory and is
not aged out of the table.
Ageout Address is cleared from the address forwarding
table when the timeout interval expires. This is
the state of all entries dynamically learned by the
switch. It ensures that MAC addresses that are not
active on the network do not remain in the switch
address forwarding table indefinitely.