3Com WX3000 operation manual Port Security Configuration, Enabling Port Security

Port Security Configuration

Complete the following tasks to configure port security:

	Task		Remarks
Enabling Port Security		Required
Setting the Maximum Number of MAC Addresses			Optional
Allowed on a Port
Setting the Port Security Mode			Required
Configuring Port	Configuring the NTK feature		Optional
Security	Configuring intrusion protection		Choose one or more features as
Features			required.
	Configuring the Trap feature
Ignoring the Authorization Information from the RADIUS			Optional
Server
Configuring Security MAC Addresses			Optional

Enabling Port Security

Follow these steps to enable port security:

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Enter system view	system-view	—
Enable port security	port-security enable	Required
		Disabled by default

Enabling port security resets the following configurations on the ports to the defaults (shown in parentheses below):

z802.1x (disabled), port access control method (macbased), and port access control mode (auto)

zMAC authentication (disabled)

In addition, you cannot perform the above-mentioned configurations manually because these configurations change with the port security mode automatically.

zFor details about 802.1x configuration, refer to the sections covering 802.1x and System-Guard.

zFor details about MAC authentication configuration, refer to the sections covering MAC authentication configuration.

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