Protected Ports; Overview; Example; Example #1: Configure A Protected Port To Isolate Ports On The Switch - NETGEAR 7000 Series Administration Manual

This section describes how to set up protected ports on the switch. Some situations might require
that traffic is prevented from being forwarded between any ports at Layer 2 so that one user cannot
see the traffic of another user on the same switch.

Overview

Protected Ports:

• Prevent traffic from being forwarded between protected ports
• Allow traffic to be forwarded between a protected port and a non-protected port

Example

The following are examples of how the Protected Ports feature is used.
Example #1: Configure a Protected Port to Isolate Ports on the
Switch
In following example, PC1 and PC2 can access the Internet as usual, but PC1 cannot see the traffic
that is generated by PC2, that is, no traffic is forwarded between PC1 and PC2.
Protected Ports
NETGEAR 7000 Series Managed Switch Administration Guide Version 7.2
v1.0, May 2008
Chapter 25
Protected Ports
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