User's Manual

Chapter 4 - Operation and Administration
BreezeACCESS VL System Manual
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 Display Bridging and Association Info: The Display Bridging and
Association Info option displays a list of all the Subscriber Units and stations
in the AU's Forwarding Database. For stations behind an SU, the SU's MAC
address is also displayed (SU Address).
Each MAC address entry is followed by a description, which may include the
following:
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Et (Ethernet): An address learned from the Ethernet port.
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Vp (Virtual port): An address of a node behind an associated SU. For
these addresses, learned from the wireless port, the address of the
applicable SU is also displayed (in parenthesis).
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St (Static): An associated SU. For these entries, the following details are
also displayed: SU Unit Name, SU SW version, SU Unit Type and SU’s
Distance from the AU.
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X: An SU that is included in the Deny List.
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Sp (Special): 7 addresses that are always present, including:
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The MAC address of the AU, which appears twice as it is learned from
both the Ethernet and wireless ports.
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The MAC address of the internal Operating System stack, which also
appears twice.

Alvarion's Multicast address (01-20-D6-00-00-01, which also appears
twice. The system treats this address as a Broadcast address.

The Ethernet Broadcast address (FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF).
In addition, a summary table displays information about the Forwarding
Database (Bridging Info) and the Associated Subscriber Units Database
(Association Info). Each database includes the following information:

The current number of entries. For Bridging Info this includes the Et
(Ethernet) and the Vp (Virtual ports) entries. For Association Info this is
the number of the currently associated SUs.
NOTE
There is no aging algorithm for associated SUs. An SU is only removed from the list of associated
SUs under the following conditions:
 A SNAP frame is received from another AU indicating that the SU is now associated with the
other AU.