From: Snow, Tim (timothy.snow@eds.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 22:06:34 GMT-3
Two ports that are configured as "protected ports" cannot speak to one
another. Here's a couple of items of interested from the docs
A protected port does not forward any traffic (unicast, multicast, or
broadcast) to any other port that is also a protected port. Traffic cannot
be forwarded between protected ports at Layer 2; all traffic passing between
protected ports must be forwarded through a Layer 3 device.
Forwarding behavior between a protected port and a nonprotected port
proceeds as usual.
Picture two servers that you DON'T want to be able to talk to each other for
whatever reason, you could configure them both as protected ports and they
wouldn't be able to "talk" at layer 2, however, if they're on different
layer 3 networks and have to speak to a router then there still might be
issues.
HTH
Tim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Danny.Andaluz@triaton-na.com [mailto:Danny.Andaluz@triaton-na.com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:57 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: switchport protected
Hello, group.
Can anyone explain what this command means. I checked the doc CD but it
doesn't really explain all that well.
Thanks,
Danny
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