Security Mode Of Voice Vlan - 3Com E4500-24 Cli Configuration Manual

Table 1-3 Matching relationship between port types and voice devices acquiring voice VLAN through
manual configuration
Voice VLAN
assignment mode
Automatic
Manual

Security Mode of Voice VLAN

The automatic mode and manual mode described earlier only apply to the process of assigning a port to
the voice VLAN. After a port is assigned to the voice VLAN, the switch receives and forwards all voice
VLAN-tagged traffic without matching the source MAC address of each received packet against its OUI
list. For a port in the manual mode with the default VLAN as the voice VLAN, any untagged packet can
be transmitted in the voice VLAN. This makes the voice VLAN vulnerable to flow attacks, because
malicious users can create a large amount of voice VLAN-tagged packets to consume the voice VLAN
bandwidth, affecting normal voice communication.
H3C series switches provide the security mode for voice VLAN to address this problem. When the voice
VLAN works in security mode, the switch checks the source MAC address of each packet to enter the
voice VLAN and drops the packets whose source MAC addresses do not match the OUI list. However,
checking packets occupies lots of system resources. Therefore, in a relatively safe network, you can
configure the voice VLAN to operate in normal mode.
The following table presents how a packet is handled when the voice VLAN is operating in security
mode and normal mode.
Table 1-4 How a packet is handled when the voice VLAN is operating in different modes
Voice VLAN
Mode
Security
Port type
Access Not supported
Supported
Make sure the default VLAN of the port exists and is not a
Trunk
voice VLAN, and the access port permits the traffic of the
default VLAN.
Supported
Make sure the default VLAN of the port exists and is not a
Hybrid
voice VLAN, and the default VLAN is in the list of the tagged
VLANs whose traffic is permitted by the access port.
Access Not supported
Supported
Make sure the default VLAN of the port exists and is not a
Trunk
voice VLAN, and the access port permits the traffic of the
default VLAN.
Supported
Make sure the default VLAN of the port exists and is not a
Hybrid
voice VLAN, and the default VLAN and the voice VLAN is in
the list of the tagged VLANs whose traffic is permitted by the
access port.
Packet Type
Untagged packet
Supported or not
Processing Method
If the source MAC address of the packet
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