The Forwarding tab shows the forwarding database for the VLAN and contains information about unicast entries for which the bridge has forwarding and/or filtering information.This information is used by the transparent bridging function to determine how to forward a received frame.


Field	Description
Status	Values include: self--one of the bridge's addresses learned--a learned entry that is being used mgmt--a static entry
MacAddress	A unicast MAC address for which the bridge has forwarding and/or filtering information.
Port	Either a value of zero (0) or the port number of the port on which a frame having the specified MAC address has been seen. A value of 0 indicates a self-assigned MAC address.
Monitor	Select true or false to copy packets with MAC address in source or destination field. Used with port mirroring. .
Priority	Priority level. If true, frames in the VLAN will be forwarded through the switch fabric with high priority. If false, frames in the VLAN will be forwarded through the switch fabric with normal priority..

Note: For troubleshooting, it is sometimes necessary to manually flush the bridge forwarding database of learned MAC addresses. The forwarding database can be flushed in two contexts:

By Port--Delete all MAC addresses associated with a port for all VLANs under Edit Port > Interface > Action > FlushMacFdb.
By VLAN--Delete all MAC addresses associated with the VLAN under VLAN > VLANs > Advanced > Action > FlushMacFdb.