Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but since switches forward packets
selectively per port, I would think it would be hard to sniff packets on
any port, w/o administrative access to the switch to tell it to mirror
data to a different port.
ie, if I'm plugged into port 1, I can't see traffic on a switch on port 2
except for broadcast traffic...
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).
>
> (Is this freebsd-net-ish?)
>
> Later,
> --mike
>
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