The Ethernet interfaces on any publicly accessible LANCOM device can potentially be used by unauthorized persons to gain physical access to a network. The Ethernet interfaces on the device can be disabled to prevent this.
LANconfig: Interfaces / LAN / Interface settings
WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / Interfaces
- Interface usage
Here you select how this interface is to be used.
Possible values:
- None (power down): The interface is deactivated.
- Idle: The interface is not allocated to any particular task, but it remains physically active.
- LAN-1 to LAN-n: The interface is allocated to a logical LAN.
- DSL-1 to DSL-n: The interface is allocated to a DSL interface.
- Monitor: The port is a monitor port, i.e. everything received at the other ports is output via this port. A packet sniffer such as Wireshark / Ethereal can be connected to this port, for example.
- Depends on the particular interface or the hardware model.