Advanced Bridging Options 5-9In general, a packet received in a routed encapsulation (i.e., IPCP orrouted RFC 1483 or RFC 1490) is delivered to the router. A packetreceived in a bridged encapsulation is passed to the bridge. IfMAC-Encapsulated Routing is enabled, the received(bridge-encapsulated) packets are delivered to the router.Advanced BridgingOptionsThe advanced bridging configuration options are located with the rest ofthe Local Site configuration options. However, these advanced bridgingoptions function more as global parameters and therefore are applicableto bridging over the WAN as well as the LAN.Most users do not need to change these values from the defaults.To alter advanced bridging configurations:1 Go to the OfficeConnect Remote 840 home page and selectConfiguration > Local Site > Bridge.2 Click Advanced to access a screen containing the following field:You may then enter the following fields: Aging Time — Time (seconds) for aging out forwarding tableinformation. Forward Delay — Time (seconds) to wait while learning forwardinginformation before starting to bridge packets. Spanning Tree Priority — Priority of this spanning tree node. This isused for prioritizing the nodes when spanning tree is enabled (whichis determined on either the Bridge Add or Bridge Modify/Deletescreens).840ug.book Page 9 Friday, July 7, 2000 2:23 PM
