HP J3188A manual Security Information, Understanding Network Security

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Security Information

This section describes how to set security for your product. It covers the following topics:

■how intruder prevention works

■how eavesdrop prevention works

■setting inbound security with intruder prevention

■setting outbound security with eavesdrop prevention

Understanding Network Security

In addition to password protection and network access protection, the HP

Hub-16M provides two major types of per-port security:

■Intruder Prevention for inbound data (from the end user to the hub).

■Eavesdrop Prevention for outbound data (from the hub to the end user).

Both of these types of security can be configured on each port individually (all twisted-pair ports and the AUI port through the SEcure command on the ASCII console interface. These per-port security features are enabled by comparing the source and destination address of each packet received or transmitted by the hub to each port’s Authorized MAC address—the MAC address of the device that is authorized to communicate through that hub port. These features can be seen through the CiscoView network management application.