RCA 605 User Manual

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Chapter 5
Expert Configuration
Add a new Bridge port
Proceed as follows to add a new port to the Ethernet Bridge:
1
Click New under the Bridge Ethernet overview table
2
In the Interface box, type a unique interface name; in the Destination list, 
select the interface you want to use for this connection.
3
Mark the Multicast filter checkbox if you wish to filter out multicast streams on 
this interface. In normal situations multicast packets are flooded on all ports of 
the bridge, but this might cause unwanted performance issues on some 
interface types.
4
Select the VLAN name to which arriving packets on this interface should be 
assigned. In VLAN enabled mode this is only applicable for untagged packets.
5
Select the default Priority* to be used for tagging outgoing VLAN packets on 
this interface.
6
Mark the Ingress Filtering* checkbox to filter out VLAN tagged packets that 
arrive on an interface that has not the same VID as the packet.
7
Mark the Accept VLAN only* checkbox to no longer accept packets arriving on 
this interface without a VLAN tag.
8
Choose your preferred Priority configuration from the list. This will make the 
SpeedTouch™ to map the priority indication in the VLAN packet (IEEE 802.1p 
value) to an internal priority class. This internal class can be taken into account 
in other modules of the SpeedTouch™.
Disabled, to not perform priority mapping
Overwrite, to set the VLAN priority indication as the internal priority.
9
Click Apply.
VLAN
Next to transparent bridging, the SpeedTouch™ is also capable of operating in a full 
VLAN ID aware mode. By using VLAN tagging, it is possible to make distinction 
between different virtual networks residing on the same physical Ethernet segment, 
and as such define different properties for them.
VLAN interface
overview
On the VLAN page, there is an overview of all VLANs that are defined in the 
SpeedTouch™ (through the 
 pages) and the bridge ports that are 
member of it.
The parameters that are marked with an asterisk (*) are only applicable 
when the SpeedTouch™ Ethernet bridge is in VLAN enabled mode.