American Fibertek SM8P-SFP - Manual (Page 79)

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18-May-11
3-4. MAC
MAC Table Configuration gathers many functions, including MAC Table
Information, MAC Table Maintenance, Static Forward, Static Filter and MAC Alias,
which cannot be categorized to some function type. They are described below.
3-4-1. Mac Address Table
Function name:
MAC Address Table Information
Function Description:
This function can allow the user to set up the processing mechanism of MAC
Table. An idle MAC address exceeding MAC Address Age-out Time will be
removed from the MAC Table. The range of Age-out Time is 10-1000000
seconds, and the setup of this time will have no effect on static MAC
addresses.
In addition, the learning limit of MAC maintenance is able to limit the amount
of MAC that each port can learn.
Fig. 3-26
Parameter description:
Aging Time:
Delete a MAC address idling for a period of time from the MAC Table,
which will not affect static MAC address. Range of MAC Address Aging
Time is 10-1000000 seconds. The default Aging Time is 300 seconds.