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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:59:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To:        Modred <modred@ns1.antisocial.net>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, leifn@neland.dk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: poor ethernet performance? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907201958210.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907202043160.5748-100000@ns1.antisocial.net>

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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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