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June 17th, 2014 16:00
PowerConnect 2808 turn off all port security
Greetings, all.
I've inherited a PowerConnect 2808, and thus far, have gotten it only to frustrate me. I'm able to open its web interface and poke around, but the changes I'm making are not getting me to the place I want to go. And before anybody asks, I do have and have read the manual.
I want to turn off ALL port security altogether. I additionally want ports 1-4 to be a VLAN, and 5-8 to be another VLAN. I'm a networking guy, so I'm well aware that the VLANs won't talk to each other. This is to separate a test network from a production network.
Ideally, I'd love to do a factory reset on the device before I accomplish this. Normally, I'm pretty good at figuring these things out. But the documentation and the web interface for the 2808 is so poorly written as to be indecipherable gobbldeygook.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Gregory Pius
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June 18th, 2014 13:00
I read all the stuff about VLAN setup. The thing is, see, it's not behaving how I am expecting it to behave. Even worse, the documentation is written very badly, and so is the interface. It is difficult to discern which settings do what. Am I denying traffic? What kind of traffic am I denying? What is an "authenticated entity?" I don't know any of this, and the documentation doesn't really help explain it.
So, In the interests of clarity, here's what I want to do. They say a picture is worth a thousand words:
I want to isolate my test LAN from my production LAN with my PowerConnect 2808. After setting it up the way I think it's supposed to be set up, I plug my laptop into port 1. It doesn't get an address from the DHCP server. I assign an IP address to it manually, and I can't ping anything on my production LAN.
At this point I don't have the time to subscribe to the "teach a man to fish" cliché. I need a fish, like now.
So... what do I have to do to make my 2808 do this?
Many, many thanks for your responses and help. Even though I am somewhat abrasive, I am very grateful.
Cheers!
Gregory Pius