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Security

6-8

Configuring Security

from the selected ports: a trap will be sent after the first violation, but all
packets, regardless of source address, will be allowed to pass. Ports in this
state still have active eavesdropper protection.

3.

The Security Level field allows you to select which packets not addressed to
the selected ports will be scrambled: click to select partial if you wish to
scramble the data portion of all packets

except broadcasts and multicasts;

select full if you wish to scramble broadcasts and multicasts as well. Note that
scrambling can only be applied to

LANVIEW

SECURE

hubs; this field will be

grayed out if one or more non-

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SECURE

hub ports has been selected

in the list box.

4.

Use the Force NonSecure field to designate which ports should be securable
(that is, lockable) and which should be unsecurable. By definition, any
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SECURE

port with more than 35 addresses in its source address

table (or exactly 35 for two consecutive ageing times) is unsecurable, as are
any non-

LANVIEW

SECURE

ports with more than 3 addresses (or exactly 3 for

two consecutive ageing times). Unsecurable ports — whether forced or
natural — cannot be locked, and will be designated in the list box as
Unsecurable.

5.

Click on

to save your changes; the new Security Level and

violation response settings will be displayed in the list box.

To assign secure addresses to a port:

1.

Click to select a single port in the list box; the

button will be

activated.

2.

Click on

; the Addresses window,

Figure 6-3

, will appear.

NOTE

Any ports which are disabled in response to a violation will remain disabled even after the
SEHI has been reset, and must be re-enabled manually. See Enabling /Disabling MIM
Ports

in Chapter 2 for more information.

NOTE

You cannot force a port to Unsecurable status if it is already locked.

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