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Subject: Re: Re[2]: huh? switch hitter?
From: robw @ marineterminals . com (Robert Williams)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:52:00 -0700
To: Brian Murrell <Brian_Murrell @ bctel . net>
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

>Don't people usually switch segments rather than individual hosts??  Isn't
>switching ethernet a little expensive to do it by host??  If the switching
>is done by segment rather than by host, then one could still sniff one's
>own physical segment.
>
>b.

1) I think most people are switching segments as opposed to switching all
the way to the client.

2) Switching is coming down in cost per port.  In the areas where we wanted
it, we put switch-to-client in at a cost of around $140 per port.

Regards.

RobW





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