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Simple port security
Hello there my name is Peter. I would like a function to be added to these series of switches that prevents a rouge user to connect equipment to any port and gain access to the network or disturb/bring it down with maybe a CAM overflow attack. It would work such that if an unreasonable amount of connection attempts with different mac adresses occurs - it disables that port or something. A better idea would be to use DHCP snooping in the switch so we could enter allowed MAC and IP adresses in the router instead. I know that switches like GS108Tv2 probably supports this however there is no GS105T small 5-port version available so I am forced using GS105Ev2 instead which is a nice little switch indeed. If DHCP snooping is too complex maybe you could add a little menue instead so we could enter a couple of MAC adresses allowed on each port. Thanks sincerely Peter
Seeing a security viloation on port security where device MAC seems to be case sensitive
Have enabled single MAC port security on switch and get security violations with some types of devices. These devices seem to present their MAC address in lower case when booting up and in bootloader mode, then during full startup seem to present MAC address in a different case. My understanding is that the MAC address is a hexadecimal number and not an actual string. Why would switch flag the mac as violation? We moved the devices over to a couple of Cisco switches and did not get that violation trap. Is there any way to make the switch not case sensitive to MACs ?