Re: [cobalt-developers] OS-discussion

[Regis <crescen7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 13:20, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:51:07 -0800
> > From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > > Those of us who provide proper colo shield our customers from one
> > > another by using VLANs terminated on such a router/firewall.
> > > Will be bringing up another couple in the next week if certain
> > > software packages stabilize.
> > 
> > Okay Eddy, obviously I've got a lot to learn.  I'd love to keep picking
> > your brains on this; for example, any ideas where to get a good
> > reference book, or what terms to type in when I search the web?
> 
> "VLAN" and ("802.1q" or "trunking") would be what I try.  Or one
> could always RTFM the manual for, say, an HP Procurve or other
> VLAN-capable switch. :-)
> 
> Note that one also needs a capable router to terminate the VLANs;
> the connection from the switch to the router must use tags to
> successfully trunk the traffic.
> 
> And, now that patches such as zlib and Squid seem to be calming
> down, I have some OpenBSD firewalls to build for clients. :-)
> 
> 
> > Is it time to take this conversation offlist, or are other readers
> > interested in it as well?
> 
> IMNSHO, others _should_ be interested in this.  Security is a
> many-layered process, and this is one layer of many.  Obviously,
> encryption helps, but isn't perfect.  And, when it's not much
> harder to do it right, why do it wrong?
> 
> Or maybe we should go off-list and keep the gems secret, if other
> people truly don't care. ;-)
> 
> Seriously:  I hope that this stuff doesn't fall on deaf ears.
> 

Are you kidding, this discussion has been among the most informative and
important of the things I've seen on this list.  No offense, but a
steady diet of "where can I find a .pkg for ?????" gets a bit dull.!