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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:06:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Transport Mode IPSEC
Message-ID:  <20070118030358.S55095@prime.gushi.org>
In-Reply-To: <005701c73ad3$1e433560$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
References:  <20070118022306.Q26349@prime.gushi.org> <005701c73ad3$1e433560$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> Dan,
>
>   You do realize, don't you, that since both of these hosts are on a switch,
> and are using unicast traffic to communicate with each other, that they
> cannot be sniffed, don't you?

That implies trust of the switch, trust against arp-cache poisoning, and 
the like.  The idea of ipsec is not trusting the wire.

With NIS/NFS known for being this inherently secure, would it get me a 
better answer if I said "with only a single router between them"?

-Dan


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