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Chapter25 Configuring Port-Based Traffic Control
Configuring Protected Ports
Because a switch stack represents a single logical switch, Layer 2 traffic is not forwarded between any
protected ports in the switch stack, whether they are on the same or different switches in the stack.
These sections contain this configuration information:
Default Protected Port Configuration, page 25-7
Protected Port Configuration Guidelines, page25-7
Configuring a Protected Port, page25-7
Default Protected Port Configuration
The default is to have no protected ports defined.
Protected Port Configuration Guidelines
You can configure protected ports on a physical interface (for example, Gigabit Ethernet port 1) or an
EtherChannel group (for example, port-channel 5). When you enable protected ports for a port channel,
it is enabled for all ports in the port-channel group.
Do not configure a private-VLAN port as a protected port. Do not configure a protected port as a
private-VLAN port. A private-VLAN isolated port does not forward traffic to other isolated ports or
community ports. For more information about private VLANs, see Chapter16, “Configuring Private
VLANs.”
Configuring a Protected Port
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to define a port as a protected port:
To disable protected port, use the no switchport protected interface configuration command.
This example shows how to configure a port as a protected port:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface gigabitethernet1/0/1
Switch(config-if)# switchport protected
Switch(config-if)# end
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 interface interface-id Specify the interface to be configured, and enter interface
configuration mode.
Step3 switchport protected Configure the interface to be a protected port.
Step4 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step5 show interfaces interface-id switchport Verify your entries.
Step6 copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.