MAC Notification

Device > Configure > MAC Notification

This dialog box provides information on the MAC Notification feature. From here, you can enable/disable the feature, as well as specify the values for the Notification Interval and Table Maximum Length fields.

The following data is displayed:

Do one of the following:


MAC Notification (cmnGlobalFeatureEnabled)

Indicates whether the MAC notification feature is currently running on the device.


Notification Interval (cmnNotificationInterval)

Specifies the maximum interval of time MAC Changed Notification messages are generated by the device.


Address Learned (cmnMacAddressesLearnt)

Number of MAC addresses added to the forwarding database.


Address Removed (cmnMacAddressesRemoved)

Number of MAC addresses removed from the forwarding database.


Notification (cmnNotificationsEnabled)

Indicates whether MAC Changed Notification messages are sent when MAC addresses are added or removed from the forwarding database of the device. Disabling notification messages does not prevent MAC address information from being added to the history table.


Notification Sent (cmnNotificationsSent)

Number of MAC Changed Notification messages sent by the device.


Table Maximum Length (cmnHistTableMaxLength)

Upper limit on the number of entries the history table can contain.