GE Multinet 4 - Bridge

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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
4.4.2 Bridge
The Bridge screens enable you to configure and monitor Media Access Control (MAC)
addresses.
There are two types of MAC addresses maintained by the bridge in its station cache:
Static – This is a MAC address that you enter and specify as entry type “Configured” in
section 4.4.2.2 Bridge: Static MACs screen.
Dynamic – This is an address that is added to the station cache when the bridge detects a
new address from a packet’s source address field. The bridge stores this address along
with the ID of the port on which it was received. A learned address is maintained in the
Table 4–33: Ethernet: Ports: Rate Limits
Field Name Field Value
Port ID: Unique port identifier.
Ingress Limit Type: This parameter can take one of four parameters:
• Broadcast –
• Multicast –
• Flooded –
• All –
Ingress Rate (bps): This parameter can take one of eight parameters:
• Unlimited –
• 128K –
• 256K –
• 512K –
• 1M –
• 2M –
• 4M –
• 8M –
Egress Rate (bps): This parameter can take one of eight parameters:
• Unlimited –
• 128K –
• 256K –
• 512K –
• 1M –
• 2M –
• 4M –
• 8M –