User`s guide

Setting Up the Association Table 10 - 9

If you are going to use static entries to control associations, then the

“association add all” command is a quick way to set up the table.

1. Leave auto-association “On” and let the nodes automatically associ-

ate to the Bridge.

2. Once they have associated, select Add from the Association Menu

and type “All”. All entries currently in the table are now made static.

3. Turn off auto-association. You can now remove extra entries or add

missing entries manually.

Backbone LAN Node Stale Out Time (Staletime)

When an entry is added to the association table for a wired LAN node, a

timer is started for the number of seconds speciﬁed by the value of this

option. Each time a packet is received containing the same source

address, the timer is restarted.

Specifying How Node Addresses are Displayed (NIDdisp)

Use the NIDdisp option to specify how the node addresses are displayed

on the Association Display Screen. The Ethernet or Token Ring Bridge

has the ability to display node addresses as follows:

n If you specify “numeric”, the addresses are displayed entirely in

numeric form (default).

n If you specify “name”, the Organizational Unique Identiﬁer (OUI)

portion of the address (the ﬁrst three bytes) is examined to see if it

is one of the known types. If it is in the list, the ﬁrst three bytes will

be replaced by the name of the company that owns the OUI. Other-

wise the numeric value is displayed. For example, the address of a

SUN workstation could be displayed as either 080020ladecc or Sun-

ladecc.

NOTE: If Niddisp is set to Token Ring, all addresses will be displayed in

Token Ring order. However, all addresses entered as command options

must still be entered in Ethernet order.