Avaya P580 - Manual (Page 252)

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Chapter
3. Select a VLAN for this entry from the VLAN field pull-down
menu.
4. Select Forward or Filter from the Port Binding field
pull-down menu.If filter is selected, frames with the specific
MAC address will be dropped.
5. Enter the port that you want associated with this entry in the
Port Binding field.
6. Select a priority level from the Priority field pull-down menu
for packets that you want forwarded to this MAC address.
High priority addresses move to the front of the switch packet
buffers automatically.
7. Select the persistence of Permanent or Ageout from the
Persistence field pull-down menu.
8. Refer to Table 6-7 for an explanation of the Aging and
Persistence field parameters:
9. Click APPLY to save your changes, or CANCEL to clear the
dialog box fields.
Adding Entries
to the AFT
Manually Using
the CLI
To add entries to the AFT manually using the CLI, enter the
following command in Configure mode:
<configure># set aft entry (mac address)
Refer to the Command Reference Guide for the Avaya P550R, P580, P880,
and P882 Multiservice Switches, Version 5.3 for details about this
command.
Table 6-7. 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.