Chapter 7: Security
NOTE: Clicking the reopen button causes the page to be refreshed, so unsaved changes will be lost.
Buttons:
Save: Click to save changes.
Reset: Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.
7.7.2 Switch Status
This section shows the port security status. Port security is a module with no direct configuration. Configuration comes indirectly from other modules—the user modules. When a user module has enabled port security on a port, the port is set up for software-based learning. In this mode, frames from unknown MAC addresses are passed on to the port security module, which in turn asks all user modules whether to allow this new MAC address to forward or block it. For a MAC address to be set in the forwarding state, all enabled user modules must unanimously agree on allowing the MAC address to forward. If only one chooses to block it, it will be blocked until that user module decides otherwise. The status page is divided into two sections—one with a legend of user modules and one with the actual port status.
Web Interface
To configure a port security switch status configuration in the Web interface:
Check on the box next to “Auto-refresh” to automatically refresh the information.
Figure 7-22. The Port Security Switch Status screen.
Page 200 | 724-746-5500 blackbox.com | LGB5028A User‘s Manual |
| |
