P580 and P882 User's Guide

Document No. 10-300077, Issue 2 9-7
Managing the Address Forwarding Table
AFT Default Settings
Figure 9-1. Create VLANs
Name—Name for the new VLAN
ID—VLAN ID number, valid number between 1-4094 (1 is reserved for the
Default VLAN)
Instance ID—Instance table representation of a VLAN. The Instance ID
does not directly correlate to the VLAN ID
Initial Hash Table Size—1024, the default setting for the Initial Hash table
size.
Auto- Increment HT Size—Default setting is True. Enable to
automatically correct for undersized hash table size.
Address Forwarding Table, Auto-Sizing, Auto
Increment and Threshold
Default Settings In the navigation pane, expand the L2 Switching > Address Forwarding
Table folders, and then click Configuration. The Address Forwarding
Table Configuration Web page is displayed in the content pane. See
Figure 9-2.
Auto-Sizing is a feature that allows the Avaya Multiservice Switch to
automatically correct for an undersized hash table, which can result in poor
AFT memory utilization. Auto-Sizing consists of three parameters: Auto-
Increment, Trigger (Multiplier), and Threshold (Util%) in the Address
Forwarding Table Configuration