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SonicOS Enhanced 4.0 Administrator Guide
When you create a PortShield interface in Transparent Mode, you create a range of addresses
to be applied to the PortShield interface. You include these addresses in one entity called an
Address Object. Address Objects allow for entities to be defined one time and to be re-used in
multiple referential instances throughout the SonicOS interface. When you create a PortShield
interface using an address object, all ports mapped to the interface are identified by any of the
addresses specified in the address range.
Note Each statically addressed PortShield interface must be on a unique subnetwork. You can
not overlap PortShield interfaces across multiple subnetworks.
Using Different Approaches to Configuration
There are four ways to approach configuration of PortShield interface. They are:
• By going into the Interfaces environment and clicking the Add PortShield Interface button.
• By going into the Switch Ports environment and clicking on port icons in an interactive
graphic of the SonicWALL TZ 180 or TZ 190 appliance.
• By going into the Switch Ports environment and clicking on the pen and paper icon in the
Configure column of the switch ports list.
• By using the PortShield interface wizard and clicking on options presented in the wizard
screens.
To create a PortShield interface using the first method, perform the following tasks:
1. Log into the SonicWALL TZ 180 or TZ 190 security appliance.
2. Create and add a PortShield interface to the list of interfaces. The PortShield interface is a
virtual interface that you are adding to segment and control traffic for the 8-port managed
SonicWALL TZ 180 or TZ 190 appliance. After you select a zone, you select a series of
ports that you want to assign to the PortShield interface.
3. Navigate to the Switch Port environment and perform either per-port or multiple-port extra
configuration.
To create a PortShield interface using the second and third methods, perform the following
tasks:
1. Log into the SonicWALL TZ 180 or TZ 190 security appliance.
2. Create and add a PortShield interface to the list of interfaces.
3. Go to the Switch Port environment and assign ports to the PortShield interface you have
already created.
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For the second method, select ports from the device graphic.
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For third method, click on the pen and paper icon and select ports from the same dialog
boxes you work in the Interface environment.
4. Perform per-port or multiple-port extra configuration.
To create a PortShield interface using the fourth method, perform the following tasks:
1. Log into the SonicWALL TZ 180 or TZ 190 security appliance.
2. Click Wizards environment and select the PortShield Interface Wizard.
3. Navigate through the wizard screens, selecting and verifying one of the options presented
for switch partitioning which divides the ports up into various amounts.