Set switch agingtimer|ageingtimer – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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AT-S63 Management Software Command Line Interface User’s Guide

Section I: Basic Operations

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SET SWITCH AGINGTIMER|AGEINGTIMER

Syntax

set switch agingtimer|ageingtimer=

value

Parameter

agingtimer or

Specifies the aging timer for the MAC address table.

ageingtimer

The value is in seconds. The range is 0 to 1048575.

The default is 300 seconds (5 minutes). The
parameters are equivalent.

Description

The switch uses the aging timer to delete inactive dynamic MAC
addresses from the MAC address table. When the switch detects that no
packets have been sent to or received from a particular MAC address in
the table after the period specified by the aging time, the switch deletes the
address. This prevents the table from becoming full of addresses of nodes
that are no longer active.

Setting the aging timer to 0 disables the timer. No dynamic MAC
addresses are aged out and the table stops learning new addresses after
reaching its maximum capacity.

To view the current setting for the MAC address aging timer, refer to
“SHOW SWITCH AGINGTIMER|AGEINGTIMER” on page 150.

Example

The following command sets the aging timer to 120 seconds (2 minutes):

set switch agingtimer=120

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