Provision MAC address tables
Overview
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Purpose
The switches on the data packs operate in self-learning mode, i.e. the source addresses
(SA) of received frames are stored in a MAC address table and the destination
addresses (DA) of received frames will be compared to those in the table to find the
right egress port. Packets whose DA is not found in the table will be broadcasted to all
relevant ports. The dynamic MAC address table entries age out after a while (300s) to
make room for new entries.
The “Static MAC Address Provisioning” feature allows the user to make manual
entries into the MAC address table. These entries are called static entries and are not
subject to address aging. In case of unicast addresses a single egress port can be
provisioned. In case of multicast addresses a list of egress ports can be provisioned.
The X4IP-V2 option card supports addition of static MAC address entries into the
filtering database. These entries are not submitted to the ageing time process.
Conversely, users can delete MAC address entries from the filtering database using
configuration commands.
The X4IP-V2 option card supports static MAC address table management. Users can
set a maximum limit for the number of MAC address entries that can be learned per
V-LAN. The 1643 AM/AMS supports the filtering database flushing function using
configuration commands.
The X4IP-V2 option card supports the programmable ageing pass time feature. To
learn the MAC address entries automatically, the ageing pass timer can be provisioned
for a duration between 10 seconds to 630 seconds in steps of 10 seconds for the whole
filtering database. The default value is 300 seconds. The X4IP-V2 option card supports
queries for whole and static MAC address entries and dynamic MAC address entries
by specifying the MAC address and V-LAN tag.
Contents
Provision static MAC address table 8-123
Provision the MAC address learning mode 8-126
Provision the MAC address aging pass timer 8-128
Traffic provisioning
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Alcatel-Lucent - Proprietary
See notice on first page
365-312-807R7.2
Issue 4, May 2007
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