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Infinet Wireless: Technical Documentation – InfiMAN Evolution
Operation & Administration – 116
67 Figure - Management configuration
Switch Group rules
Once assigned to one of the switching groups, a frame will never leave it until it reaches one of the external ports.
Switching group rules are applied only when the frame enters toMINTnetwork through one of its external ports.
When leaving the network, no rules are required as the frame already belongs to one of the switching groups and it
is automatically forwarded to an external port(s) that belongs to the corresponding switching group.
Rules are used for the following purposes:
Selecting an appropriate switching group when a packet is received through "ethX"interface. The packet is
switched by the group the rules of which it fully satisfies.
When the packet is assigned to a switching group, the group decides whether the packet to be sent through
one of the interfaces, or to discard it. The packet will only be sent if it satisfies the rules of this interface.
The rules consist of a "rules list" and a decision (deny/permit). While parsing the list, the switch checks whether a
packet matches the rule. If it matches the rule, the decision set for this rule is applied to the packet. Otherwise, the
list of rules is viewed further. Rules are taken one at a time. If a packet does not match to any rule, the default
decision for this group or interface is taken.
NOTE
Frames originated by MINT network nodes (for example: containing RIP/OSPF, ping packets, etc) do not
belong to any of the switching groups. Therefore, they cannot leave MINT network via switching through
any of the external ports.
CAUTION
A packet that cannot be associated with any switching group will not switched by the device. If there is no
group with appropriate rules for the packet, it is discarded.