Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:59:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Modred <modred@ns1.antisocial.net> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, leifn@neland.dk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907201958210.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907202043160.5748-100000@ns1.antisocial.net>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Modred wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > No idea but it seems like the people who sold the Cisco switches > > atleast claimed that each port is supposed to be secure to prevent packet > > sniffing by people on the other ports... > > Perhaps they were touting 'VLANs'? I can see seperate/many, logical > networks configured across one/few physical ports via a VLAN being > relatively secure (VLANs can consist of a single port, and each VLAN is > it's own subnet). VLAN could be it... > (Is this freebsd-net-ish?) Ofcourse, remember the original discussion is ethernet performance between two FreeBSD boxes. 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
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