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Changing the aging time – Allied Telesis AT-S87 User Manual

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Chapter 13: MAC Addresses

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4. To view the port number on which a MAC address was assigned or

learned, click MAC Address, enter the MAC address, and click
Query.

The page is redisplayed to contain a list similar to the one in Figure 47.

Figure 47. Dynamic MAC Addresses Associated with a MAC Address

Changing the

Aging Time

The switch uses the aging time 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that are no longer active.

The default setting for the aging time is 300 seconds (5 minutes).

To adjust the aging time, perform the following procedure:

1. From the main menu, select Bridge > Dynamic Addresses.

The Dynamic Addresses page is shown in Figure 44.

2. In the Age Setting section, for the Aging Time, enter a new value in

seconds.

The range is 15 to 3825 seconds in multiples of 15. The default is 300
seconds (5 minutes).

3. Do one of the following:

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Click OK to save the changes.