Re: poor ethernet performance?

[Modred]

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



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