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.
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