Asante Technologies 1012 - Manual (Page 89)

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Configuration Menu System
Bridge Filtering Table
About the Filtering Table
The filtering table should be viewed as
pipelined sets of parame-
ters that determine whether any given packet is forwarded from
one segment to the other. Each parameter set contains three
ranges and an ON/OFF switch.
The following flowchart shows packet flow in the pipeline.
Read packet
Forward as
defined in
Forwarding Table
No
Status for Set 1
ON or OFF
ON
Packet source address
fall within SRC range?
Yes
Packet destination
address fall within
DST range?
Yes
Packet type fall
within packet type
range?
Yes
Filter Mode
set for
Forward or
Discard?
Forward
Forward
Packet
Discard
Discard
Packet
No
No
OFF
Status for Set 2
ON or OFF
ON
OFF
Status for Set 3
ON or OFF
ON
OFF
Status for Set n
ON or OFF
ON
OFF
Check the next
available Set, if there
is one. If not, then
forward as defined
in Forwarding Table