Re: [cobalt-users] security

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rick Ewart wrote:

} Actually, I was just reading an article entitled "why your switched network
} isn't safe from sniffers". Essentially, they have ways to defeat switches
} partitioning the network. One of the ways I recall right now was to flood
} the switch with more than 255 fake MAC addresses, causing the switch to fail
} open and revert to acting like a hub, then sniffing. Or screwing with the
} broadcasting of MAC addresses to the swtich and confusing it and/or having
} double ones. The days of switched protection are gone. I can find the
} article again if you are interested... Mail me off-list.

	I'm aware of this and it is a very important consideration.
Truth be told, anyone who has been doing this for a while knows
that the only secure box is one that's still in the box...

	At the very same, however, every little bit helps.