Black Box LRU4240 - Manual (Page 62)

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Dual Trunk E1 Router
Configuring Bridging
Configuring static MAC Bridge Routes
Enter up to 50 entries in the MAC to port map table. The entries will be stored in non-volatile RAM (NVRAM)
Table 5-2 Configuring Bridging packet processing mode
Procedure Description
Setting Bridging over
Frame Relay or Multilink
Frame Relay 1.Select Menu-0A
2.Set Traffic Type to Frame Relay
Encapsulation of bridged frames is RFC2427 compliant.
In multilink mode, the frame header is prefixed with a Multilink Frame Relay
header
1.Select Menu-$A
2.Set Packet Processing Mode to Bridging.
Packets received from the WAN are automatically forwarded to the Ethernet port
In bridging mode Menu $ will be reduced to the following menu selections:
A.Unit Routing Configuration
F. Ethernet ARP Table
G. Mac Bridge
Setting Bridging over
PPP or MLPPP 1.Select Menu-0A
2.Set Traffic Type to PPP
1.Select Menu-$A
2.Set Packet Processing Mode to Bridging.
Packets received from the WAN are automatically forwarded to the Ethernet port
In bridging mode Menu $ will be reduced to the following menu selections:
A.Unit Routing Configuration
F. Ethernet ARP Table
G. Mac Bridge
Enabling Promiscuous
mode By default in Bridging mode the unit is configured with promiscuous mode enabled.
This mode allows the unit to receive all packets from the LAN network.
Setting bridging route
aging time Entries in the MAC bridge table are removed automatically when they are inactive
for period of time defined as “Bridge Route Aging Time”. By default the aging time
is 300 seconds and can be set to up to 1,000,000 seconds. To change the default:
1.Select Menu-$A
2.Set Bridge Route Aging Time in seconds
The setting will take effect immediately.