Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:47:32 -0500 (EST) From: Modred <modred@ns1.antisocial.net> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, leifn@neland.dk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907202043160.5748-100000@ns1.antisocial.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907200143520.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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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). (Is this freebsd-net-ish?) Later, --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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