Configuring and Monitoring Port Security

Port Security Command Options and Operation

ProCurve(config)# port-security a1 learn-mode static mac-address 0c0090-123456 action send-disable

This example configures port A5 to:

Allow two MAC addresses, 00c100-7fec00 and 0060b0-889e00, as the authorized devices.

Send an alarm to a management station if an intruder is detected on the port.

ProCurve(config)# port-security a5 learn-mode static address-limit 2 mac-address 00c100-7fec00 0060b0-889e00 action send-alarm

If you manually configure authorized devices (MAC addresses) and/or an alarm action on a port, those settings remain unless you either manually change them or reset the switch to its factory-default configuration. You can “turn off” device authorization on a port by configuring the port to continuous Learn Mode, but subsequently reconfiguring the port to static Learn Mode restores the configured device authorization.

Learn-Mode Configured. This option allows only MAC addresses specifically configured with learn-mode configured mac-address < mac-address>, and does not automatically learn non-specified MAC addresses learned from the network. This example configures port A1 to:

Allow only a MAC address of 0c0090-123456 as the authorized device

Reserve the option for adding two more specified MAC addresses at a later time without having to change the address-limit setting.

Send an alarm to a management station if an intruder is detected on the port.

ProCurve(config)# port-security A1 learn-mode configured mac-address 0c0090-123456 address-limit 3 action send- disable

Adding a MAC Address to an Existing Port List

To simply add a device (MAC address) to a port’s existing Authorized Addresses list, enter the port number with the mac-addressparameter and the device’s MAC address. This assumes that Learn Mode is either static or configured and the Authorized Addresses list is not already full (as determined by the current address-lmitvalue). For example, suppose port A1 allows two authorized devices, but has only one device in its Authorized Address list:

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