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Dell PowerConnect 55xx Systems User Guide 421
Dynamic Addresses
The Dynamic Address Table contains the MAC addresses acquired by
monitoring the source addresses of traffic entering the switch. When the
destination address for inbound traffic is found in the database, the packets
intended for that address are forwarded directly to the associated port.
Otherwise, the traffic is flooded to all ports in the VLAN of the frame.
To prevent the table from overflowing and to make room for new addresses,
an address is deleted from the table if no traffic is received from a dynamic
MAC address for a certain period. This period of time is called the aging
interval.
To configure dynamic addresses:
1
Click Switch > Address Tables > Dynamic MAC Address in the tree view
to display the
Dynamic Address page.
Figure 11-2. Dynamic Address Table
The current address table is displayed along with other parameters.
2 Enter Address Aging (10-630) . The aging time is a value between the user-
configured value and twice that value minus 1. For example, if you entered
300 seconds, the aging time is between 300 and 599 seconds.