Hidiscovery Access; Description Of The Hidiscovery Protocol; Enabling/Disabling The Hidiscovery Function - Hirschmann RS20 User Manual

Assistance in the Protection from
Unauthorized Access

6.3 HiDiscovery Access

6.3.1

Description of the HiDiscovery Protocol

The HiDiscovery protocol allows you to allocate an IP address to the device
on the basis of its MAC address
via HiDiscovery"). HiDiscovery is a Layer 2 protocol.
Note: For security reasons, restrict the HiDiscovery function for the device or
disable it after you have assigned the IP parameters to the device.
6.3.2

Enabling/disabling the HiDiscovery function

 Select the Basic settings:Network dialog.
 Disable the HiDiscovery function in the "HiDiscovery Protocol" frame
or limit the access to "read-only".
enable
network protocol hidiscovery
off
network protocol hidiscovery
read-only
network protocol hidiscovery
read-write
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(see on page 35 "Entering the IP Parameters
Switch to the privileged EXEC mode.
Disable HiDiscovery function.
Enable HiDiscovery function with "read-only"
access
Enable HiDiscovery function with "read-write"
access
6.3 HiDiscovery Access
UM BasicConfig L2E
Release 8.0 05/2013