10 port mirroring – ZyXEL Communications 1 User Manual

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NetAtlas Enterprise 1.00 User’s Guide

Chapter 13 Ethernet Port Configuration

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2 Click Configuration, Switch Configuration and then the Switch Setup tab.

3 Select the Port Security check box and then click Apply.

4 Click Configuration, Ethernet Port Configuration and then the Port Security tab.

Figure 97 Configuration: Ethernet Port Configuration: Port Security

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Table 56 Configuration: Ethernet Port Configuration: Port Security

TABLE

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to enable the port security feature on selected ports.

Address Learning

MAC address learning reduces outgoing broadcast traffic. For MAC

address learning to occur on a port, the port itself must be active with

address learning enabled. Select the Address Learning check box.

Limit Number of Learned

MAC Address

Use this field to limit the number of (dynamic) MAC addresses that may be

learned on a port. For example, if you set this field to "5" on port 2, then

only the devices with these five learned MAC addresses may access port 2

at any one time. A sixth device would have to wait until one of the five

learned MAC addresses aged out. MAC-address aging out time can be set

in the Switch Setup screen. The valid range is from 0 to 16K. 0 means this

feature is disabled, so the switch will learn MAC addresses up to the global

limit of 16K.

MAC Freeze

Use the MAC Freeze button to convert all current dynamic MAC addresses

to static MAC addresses. When the MAC Freeze button is selected, the

MAC Address Learning checkbox is cleared but port security becomes

Active.

Apply

Click Apply to save the changes back to the switch.

13.10 Port Mirroring

Port mirroring allows you to copy traffic going from one or all ports to another or all ports in
order that you can examine the traffic from the mirror port (the port you copy the traffic to)
without interference.

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