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Protected Ports

Protected Port Overview

Protected ports provide Layer 2 isolation between interfaces (Ethernet ports

and LAGs) that share the same Broadcast domain (VLAN) with other

interfaces. This can be used to set up a group of ports that receive similar

services.
A protected port does not forward traffic (Unicast, Multicast, or Broadcast) to

any other protected port on the same switch.
A community is a group of protected ports. Protected ports within the same

community can forward traffic to each other.
The following types of ports can be defined:

Protected Port — Can send traffic only to uplink ports.

Community Port — A protected port that is associated with a community.

It can send traffic to other protected ports in the same community and to

uplink ports.

Uplink Port — An uplink port is an unprotected port that can send traffic

to any port.

Isolated Port — A protected port that does not belong to a community.

Port Protection is independent of all other features and configuration

settings. Two protected ports in a common VLAN cannot communicate with

each other.

eee lldp enable

no eee lldp enable

Enables EEE support by LLDP on an

Ethernet port.
Use the no format of the command to

disable the support.

show eee [interface-id]

Displays EEE information.

Table 8-3. Green Ethernet CLI Commands (Continued)

CLI Command

Description