User's Manual

InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual

MAC Switch

This section allows stating the switch mode on the unit and creating multiple

switch groups.

General section:

 ―Help‖ button – displays general help guidelines for MAC switch

configuration.

 ―Enable Switch‖ check-box – starts switching on the unit

 Management VLAN – sets a Management VLAN ID. When set the device

access and configuration are possible only via Management VLAN

 ―Create Switch Group‖ button – creates a new switch group.

Group section:

 Group# - allows changing the unique numeric identifier of the group

 ―Enabled‖ check-box - enables/disables the corresponding switching

group

 Interfaces – allows including local network interfaces of the unit (―ethX‖,

―rfx‖, ―tunX‖, etc.) into the switch group by selecting the corresponding

check-boxes.

Each local interface supports 3 modes of dealing with the VLAN tagged

traffic going out from the interface:

o Pass – transparent mode, i.e. in this mode all the traffic remains

unchanged.

o Strip – in this mode all VLAN tagged packets are untagged by the

interface

o Tag – in this mode all the packet are tagged with the VLAN tag

specified in the field located below the ―tag‖ option

 STP – enables Spanning Tree Protocol feature at the switching group

 IGMP – enables IGMP-Snooping feature at the switching group

 Repeater – starts the repeater mode. In this mode the group switches the

packets simply by sending them to all the device‘s interfaces except the

one the packet was received from.

 Admin – sets the switching group as the admin group. All the packets

originated by the unit itself (e.g. RIP/OSPF or ping) leave the MINT

network via the admin group. If ―No Admin Group‖ is selected such

packets isn‘t able to leave the network

 Mode – allows using one of the following switch group modes: