Protection from Unauthorized Access
6.5 HiDiscovery Access
6.5.1
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.
6.5.2
Enabling/disabling the HiDiscovery Function
Select the Basics: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
d
Basic Configuration
Release 6.0 07/2010
(see on page 36 "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
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