A table containing filtering information configured into the device by (local or network) management to specify the set of bridge ports within a specific range of bridge port number for a specific VLAN, to which frames received from specific ports and containing specific destination addresses are allowed to be forwarded. The value of zero in this table as the port number from which frames with a specific destination address are received, is used to specify all ports for which there is no specific entry in this table for that particular destination address. Entries are valid for unicast and for group/broadcast addresses.