On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote:
yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our FreeBSD server was also connected. [ ... ] Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like to do it on the server side, not on the "user side".)
This isn't a FreeBSD-specific issue, but a matter of controlling access to the central networking hardware to only those qualified to deal with it. However, if you purchase higher-quality smart switches, they implement the spanning tree protocol to detect and break loops like the one you've described.
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