3Com WX3000 Port Isolation Configuration, Port Isolation Overview, Introduction to Port Isolation

1 Port Isolation Configuration

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The term switch used throughout this chapter refers to a switching device in a generic sense or the switching engine of a unified switch in the WX3000 series.

The sample output information in this manual was created on the WX3024. The output information on your device may vary.

Port Isolation Overview

Introduction to Port Isolation

Through the port isolation feature, you can add the ports to be controlled into an isolation group to isolate the Layer 2 data between each port in the isolation group. Thus, you can improve the network security and network in a more flexible way.

Currently, you can configure only one isolation group on a switch. The number of Ethernet ports an isolation group can accommodate is not limited.

The port isolation function is independent of VLAN configuration.

Port Isolation Configuration

Follow these steps to add an Ethernet port to an isolation group:

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Enter system view	system-view	—
Enter Ethernet port view	interface interface-type	—
	interface-num
Add the Ethernet port to the		Required
	port isolate	By default, an isolation group
isolation group
		contains no port.

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