NETGEAR 7000 Series manual Chapter Protected Ports, Example

NETGEAR 7000 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide Version 7.2

Chapter 25

Protected Ports

This section describes how to set up protected ports on the switch. Some situations might require that traffic is prevented from being forwarded between any ports at Layer 2 so that one user cannot see the traffic of another user on the same switch.

Overview

Protected Ports:

•Prevent traffic from being forwarded between protected ports

•Allow traffic to be forwarded between a protected port and a non-protected port

Example

The following are examples of how the Protected Ports feature is used.

Example #1: Configure a Protected Port to Isolate Ports on the Switch

In following example, PC1 and PC2 can access the Internet as usual, but PC1 cannot see the traffic that is generated by PC2, that is, no traffic is forwarded between PC1 and PC2.

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v1.0, May 2008