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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
