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: