
Chapter 1 Introduction Installation and Operation Manual
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actual aging time that can reach up to twice the value that was configured by the
user.
Forwarding Process
The forwarding process is performed based on the frame destination MAC-VID
pair. The frame is forwarded to the bridge port that was specified in the MAC
table for this MAC-VID pair entry.
Untagged frames are forwarded according to the PVID that was attached to the
frame during the ingress process.
Frames are forwarded, dropped, or flooded according to these guidelines:
• Forwarded – if the bridge port of the pair entry (DA, VID) in the MAC table is
both an active bridge port and a member of the VLAN, the frame is forwarded
to that bridge port only.
• Dropped –
Local Filtering: If the bridge port for the pair entry (DA, VID) in the MAC
table is the port on which the frame was received, the frame is dropped.
If there are no active ports associated with the frame’s VID, the frame is
dropped.
• Flooded –
If the pair (DA, VID) is not learned and does not exist in the MAC table,
the frame is transmitted to all bridge ports that are associated with the
frame VLAN ID, unless Split Horizon is enabled on the remote side.
Multicasts and broadcasts are flooded only through the bridge ports
whose VLAN ID is identical to the frame VLAN ID, unless Split Horizon is
enabled on the remote side.
Egress Process
After the forwarding process identifies the destination bridge port/ports to which
the frame should be transmitted, the transmission process transmits it with the
appropriate format (egress tag-handling configuration).
You can configure the frame format to be used at egress per port:
• None (do not strip VLAN) –
VLAN-tagged frames are transmitted unchanged, or with PVID tag
stacking if this is enabled
Untagged frames are transmitted tagged with the VLAN priority that was
set when entering the Gigabit Ethernet port; VID is the PVID of that port.
Priority-tagged frames are transmitted tagged with original priority and
VID = PVID
• Strip VLAN – One level of VLAN is stripped from each frame
• Stack VLAN – You can configure the Gigabit Ethernet port to have each
outgoing frame stacked with a predefined VLAN ID; the VLAN priority tag can
be optionally copied.
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