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Max EAP Requests

(1-10)—The total amount of EAP requests sent. If a response is not received

after the defined period, the authentication process is restarted. The field default is 2 retries

Make Guest VLAN

—Select

Enable

Disable.

Port Security

You can increase network security by limiting access on a specific port only to users with specific

MAC addresses. Locked ports limit access to users with specific MAC addresses. You can either

manually define these addresses on the port, or configure the ports to lean them until it is locked.

NOTE:

This screen appears only for switches that support it.

When a locked port receives a packet, and the packet’s source MAC address is not tied to that port

(either it was learned on a different port, or is unknown to the system), the device invokes the

protection mechanism, and can provide various options. Unauthorized packets arriving to a locked

port are either:

•Forwarded

• Discarded with no trap

• Discarded with a trap

• The ingress port is disabled

Locked port security also enables storing a list of MAC addresses in the configuration file. The

MAC address list can be restored after the device has been reset.