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Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

833.0. "Bridge Mode of operation ?" by IJSAPL::ROLING (Jos R�ling, Network Consultant, Holland) Thu Mar 17 1994 04:54

I'm working on a BID for HUB's, and competing HP. In order to finish my
proposal i'm looking for answers to the following question(s).

Is it possible to controle, with HUBwatch, the mode of operation of the bridges.

	Learning / secure / off 

for the 


	DECbridge 90 / DECbridge 90FL

	DECbrouter 90T1 / DECbrouter 90T2

	DECbridge 900MX


regards jos

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833.1what is remote control of "secure" in a bridge?NAC::FORRESTThu Mar 17 1994 11:1217
	
	> Learning / secure / off for the 

	> DECbridge 90 / DECbridge 90FL

	You cannot disable learning in the DECbridge 90.

	I'm not sure what you mean by "secure".

	You can set the DECbridge 90 off by disabling the ports - if 
	you disable the port through which your management packets go, 
	then you will have a great deal of difficulty reenabling the 
	bridge. So always disable the port on the far side from your 
	management station.

	I'll let others answer for the DECbrouter and DECbridge 900.
833.2DECbridge 900SLINK::HOODI&#039;d rather be surfingThu Mar 17 1994 12:168
For the DECbridge 900, you can disable learning on a port-by-port basis by
giving the bridge a list of acceptable MAC addresses and putting it into
Manual Mode.

What is "secure"?

Tom Hood
HUBwatch
833.3LEVERS::ANILThu Mar 17 1994 18:197
    The turning-off of learning is often referred to as the "secure"
    mode, since the bridge will not forward to or from any address
    on a port that is in this mode unless pre-configured by the user.
    In any case, it's a two-state switch.. "off" is no different than
    "secure".
    
    Anil
833.4We meet the HP specsIJSAPL::ROLINGJos R�ling, Network Consultant, HollandMon Mar 21 1994 11:2012
Thanks for the replies.

We meet the functionality of the HP bridges ! I didn't expect any different in
the firstplace.

%-) 


(tears give me hard time wearing my contact lenses)


regards jos