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Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@telus.net)
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:40:32 -0800

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Chris Murray wrote:
>
> > > As stated previously, switches are more network friendly. (They also limit
> > > packet sniffing, if security is an issue.) In the "bake off" tests I've seen
> > > published for "the big guys" (Bay (Nortel)/Cisco/3Com etc.), all the
> > > switches were able to keep up to full load at 100 megabit/sec. on multiple
> > > ports. Again, this might not be true of the low end switches.
> > Switches *do* limit packet sniffing, its a pity ADSL doesn't use switches.
>
> Actually, the isps that now have dsl from telus have cisco 5505 switches
> in place, these things are about 80lbs. They keep adsl customers from
> seeing each others traffic (ie: two adsl customers on the same subnet
> cannot even ping each other). They are trying to make things secure, if
> you want to see people you have to add a host route. How long have you had
> your service?
>
> - Chris
For an experiment, I just did a "tcpdump -i eth1" and noticed somebody
else's FTP data packets. I complained to Telus, and they said that
ADSL was not secure against this kind of packet sniffing, so...
I have had Telus for about six months and am using ssh (just in case).
All my ports have TCP-wrappers on them and "/etc/hosts.deny" has "all:all"

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