D-Link DES-2108/E [90/199] Configure filtering and forwarding table

24-port NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

76 Using the Console Interface

3. Change the Disabled setting of the STP State field to Enabled.

For this to take effect, Spanning Tree Protocol on the STP

Parameters Setting screen must be enabled.

4. Set the path cost for the port between 1 and 65535 in the Cost

field.

5. Set the priority for the port between 0 and 255 in the Priority

field.

6. Press CTRL+S to apply the new settings.

Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table

When a packet hits the Switch, it looks in the filtering and

forwarding tables to decide what to do with the packet; either to

filter it off the network, or to forward it through the port on which

its destination lies.

Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two

important features of the Custom Filtering Table. They are

defined here briefly as follows. Dynamic Filtering is defined when

a dynamic entry is created by the Learning Process as a result of

observation of network traffic in the Filtering Database. Static

Filtering is defined as static entries that may be added and

removed from the Filtering Database by the user. They are not

automatically removed by any timeout mechanism.

The Configure Filtering and Forwarding table screen allows

you to allows you to stop or start address learning, change the way

the Switch treats MAC address table entries, and select an age-out

time of the MAC address in the selected address table. This screen

also permits you to access three additional configuration screens

from the menu at the bottom of the window.

Choose Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table from the

Configuration menu to access the following screen:

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