| Yes, you can set security on a per port basis on the repeaters.
Notes 601 and 356 have more details on it, so you might want
to refer there. You can have eavesdropping protection so that
the sniffer will only receive a jam pattern since it's address
will not be the one that is expected. However, with the current
repeaters, the sniffer would be able to send a message [intrusion]
but the intrusion would be logged.
You can set the repeater to disable the port on intrusions,
or just log it. Future repeaters will be able to also jam the
intruding message.
Regarding your second question, current repeaters cannot have ports
assigned to different LAN's. That capability will not be
available until Q1/Q2 when the port switching repeaters [DETPT,
DETPJ, and DECPM] start shipping. The only exception to that
today is the DEFMM, DECrepeater 900FP, which is a fiber repeater
and will allow pairs of ports to be assigned to different
LAN's.
Regards,
Cathy
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