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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:01:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907281700430.16747-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907281544.LAA09659@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Switches won't help (unless you turn learning off and manually
> configure every Ethernet address in your entire network into every
> switch).  All an attacker has to do to sniff your packets is to send
> packets pretending to be you, thereby causing the switches to learn
> the attacker's location.

Not when I tell my switch that port 1 is VLAN 1 and port 2 is VLAN 2.
Port 1 will never see port 2's traffic.

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