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Port security – Accton Technology VS4512DC User Manual

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Authentication Commands

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port security

This command enables or configures port security. Use the no form without any
keywords to disable port security. Use the no form with the appropriate keyword to
restore the default settings for a response to security violation or for the maximum
number of allowed addresses.

Syntax

port security [action {shutdown | trap | trap-and-shutdown}

| max-mac-count address-count]

no port security [action | max-mac-count]

action - Response to take when port security is violated.
shutdown - Disable port only.
trap - Issue SNMP trap message only.
trap-and-shutdown - Issue SNMP trap message and disable port.
• max-mac-count address-count - The maximum number of MAC addresses

that can be learned on a port. (Range: 0 - 20)

Default Setting

Status: Disabled
Action: None
Maximum Addresses: 0

Command Mode

Interface Configuration (Ethernet)

Command Usage

• If you enable port security, the switch will stop dynamically learning new

addresses on the specified port. Only incoming traffic with source addresses
already stored in the dynamic or static address table will be accepted.

• To use port security, first allow the switch to dynamically learn the

address, VLAN> pair for frames received on a port for an initial training period,
and then enable port security to stop address learning. Be sure you enable the
learning function long enough to ensure that all valid VLAN members have been
registered on the selected port.

• To add new VLAN members at a later time, you can manually add secure

addresses with the mac-address-table static command, or turn off port
security to re-enable the learning function long enough for new VLAN members
to be registered. Learning may then be disabled again, if desired, for security.

• A secure port has the following restrictions:
• Cannot use port monitoring.
• Cannot be a multi-VLAN port.
• Cannot be connected to a network interconnection device.
• Cannot be a trunk port.
• If a port is disabled due to a security violation, it must be manually re-enabled

using the no shutdown command.

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