Enable or Disable Switch Port Mode

You can set each interface independently to be either a firewall interface or a switch port. By default, Ethernet 1/1 is a firewall interface, and the remaining Ethernet interfaces are configured as switch ports.

Procedure

Step 1

Select Devices > Device Management and click Edit ( edit icon ) for your threat defense device. The Interfaces page is selected by default.

Step 2

Set the switch port mode by clicking the slider in the SwitchPort column so it shows as Slider enabled () or Slider disabled ( slider disabled ).

By default, switch ports are set to access mode in VLAN 1. You must manually add a logical VLAN 1 interface (or whichever VLAN you set for these switch ports) for traffic to be routed and to participate in the threat defense security policy (see Configure a VLAN Interface). You cannot set the Management interface to switch port mode. When you change the switch port mode, all unsupported configuration is removed: