ZyXEL Communications MES3500-24 User Manual

 Chapter 10 Static MAC Forward Setup

MES3500-24/24F User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Advanced Application > Static MAC Forwarding 

Active

Select this check box to activate your rule. You may temporarily deactivate a rule without 
deleting it by clearing this check box.  

Name

Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes for this static MAC address forwarding 
rule.

MAC Address

Enter the MAC address in valid MAC address format, that is, six hexadecimal character pairs. 

Note: Static MAC addresses do not age out.

VID

Enter the VLAN identification number.

Port

Enter the port where the MAC address entered in the previous field will be automatically 
forwarded.

Add

Click Add to save your rule to the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch loses this rule if it 
is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation panel to save your 
changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

Clear

Click Clear to reset the fields to the factory defaults.

Index

Click an index number to modify a static MAC address rule for a port.

Active

This field displays whether this static MAC address forwarding rule is active (Yes) or not 
(No). You may temporarily deactivate a rule without deleting it. 

Name

This field displays the descriptive name for identification purposes for this static MAC 
address-forwarding rule.

MAC Address

This field displays the MAC address that will be forwarded and the VLAN identification 
number to which the MAC address belongs. 

VID

This field displays the ID number of the VLAN group.

Port

This field displays the port where the MAC address shown in the next field will be forwarded.

Delete

Click Delete to remove the selected entry from the summary table.

Cancel

Click Cancel to clear the Delete check boxes.