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Configuring Security Features 4 - 5
❑ Allows the Security Module to deliver packets only to the end station
to which a packet is addressed.
❑ Prohibits unauthorized end stations from listening (eavesdropping)
on packets that are not specifically addressed to them.
If a port receives a packet (from the ONline backplane) that is not targeted
to any of the valid addresses associated with that port, the Security Module
does not allow that packet to be delivered intact to the end station. Instead
of delivering valid data to an unauthorized port, the module 'jams' the data
by transmitting to the unauthorized port a data pattern of alternating zeros
and ones.
Figure 4-1. Example of Eavesdropping Security
Intrusion Detection
Intrusion Detection allows the Security Module to prevent delivery of
packets transmitted from unauthorized stations on the network. If a port
receives a packet from its end station which contains an invalid source