Permanent Entries
You can make stations permanent on a port so that they are never removed from the switch's address table regardless of how long they have been quiet.
MAC address
The Ethernet address of the device that is a permanent entry on a specific port.
Port
The port on which the device is to be a permanent entry
On switch
The stack member on which the port resides.
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Adding a permanent entry
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