Transparent Firewall Mode; Enabling A Transparent Firewall - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

Transparent firewall mode

The Transparent Firewall mode allows the device to switch self-originated control packets. By
default, Brocade devices will drop control packets received with the device's MAC address as the
packet's source MAC address (i.e. self originated packet from the switch or router). Under the
Transparent Firewall mode, switching of self-originated packets is allowed. The Transparent Firewall
mode feature is a per VLAN configuration and is disabled by default.

Enabling a transparent firewall

To set the mode to transparent, enter a command such as the following.
BigIron RX(config-vlan-10)# transparent-fw-mode
To set the mode to routed, enter a command such as the following.
BigIron RX(config-vlan-10)# no transparent-fw-mode
Syntax: [no] transparent-fw-mode
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