From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 0:21:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA15B1507C for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA35092; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:18:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Modred Cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Modred wrote: > > I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or > > the actual device connected to it... > > You see the MAC of the switch's port. It's been too long since I've > played on a Catalyst... but what does 'sh arp' display? Any arp -> port > -> host correlations? Good luck... :) Even if it did show the arp of the actual host, it's useless if it doesn't show the IP of the device connected to it since how will one know what device is what. > > That's a option too... Only problem is that can take forever. :-) > > Yeah, I've noticed the 'sync-up time' takes quite awhile on a Catalyst > running 100Mbps. It's pretty fast... Just it seems like the switch by default isn't like as secure as they say it is. People on other ports can't still sniff packets on the LAN. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message