Chapter 17 Port Security

The following table is a summary of configuration and results of this example.

Table 37 Port Security Example

 

SETTINGS

 

 

 

PORT

ACTIVATE

ACTIVATE

LIMIT NO. OF

RESULT

 

PORT

ADDRESS

LEARNED MAC

 

 

SECURITY

LEARNING

ADDRESSES

 

1

 

X

0 (disables limits)

Forward all packets, learn all MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

2

X

X

0 (disables limits)

Forward all packets, learn all MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

3

X

 

0 (disables limits)

Drop all packets from unknown MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses, do not learn MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

4

X

 

100

Drop all packets from unknown MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses, do not learn MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

5

X

X

100

Drop packets from unknown MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses, learn up to 100 MAC

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

128

 

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