CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
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4.4.2.3 Bridge: Station Cache
This screen enables you to view the station cache. The station cache is a database
maintained by the Ethernet bridge that tracks MAC addresses of stations on the network
and the ports associated with them. This form displays a snapshot of the contents of the
Ethernet bridge station cache.
The cache can contain up to 1,024 random entries.
The only administrative action available on this screen is provided by the
Purge Dynamic
Entries
button. You might want to purge these learned addresses if you make changes to
the network that are completed before the configured aging interval. In such a case it
could be true that the cache record of a port/station relationship could be incorrect from
the time you complete your changes until the old information ages out with the expiration
of the aging interval.
FIGURE 4–36: Ethernet: Bridge: Station Cache
The table below describes the uses of the fields and buttons in the Bridge: Station Cache
screen.
Table 4–36: Bridge: Station Cache
Field Name
Field Value
Source Address:
IP address of a station known to be active in the system.
An Ethernet packet that has a destination address that matches
an entry in the table is forwarded out the interface shown in the
Source Port column in the same row.
