Port Security with extra switchs

[rharvey11]

I was thinking about implementing port security on our switches for end users to help protect the network as well as control the unauthorized movement of workstations in remote offices. I believe that port security would be better than just mac lockdown as to allow me to enable 2 mac addresses for VoIP and workstation but my question is about if that HP switch has a small unmanaged switch connected to it with 2 computers and a printer. Would you set the maxMac to 3 in protect mode or would you set it for four to allow for the second switch mac address?

[Chrisd131313]

Hi rharvey11,

My understanding is that if you are connecting a unmanaged switch then there is no MAC address to authentiation with. As far as the downstream switch is concerned it will only see the MAC addresses of the two workstations and the printer. You should just need to set the port-access client limit to 3.