Actually, we are finding a large number of our customers are purchasing
our solutions to dedicate a single switched ethernet port per workstation.
This much bandwidth is not always necessary for each individual, but as
soon as they start playing with network-based multimedia applications the
need becomes more apparent... the security benefits are also a plus. :-)
Roderick Murchison, Jr. murchiso @
vivid .
newbridge .
com
Newbridge Networks, Inc. office: (703) 708-5930
Product Manager - VIVID ACS fax: (703) 708-5937
Herndon, VA 22070-5241 http://www.vivid.newbridge.com
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Brian Murrell wrote:
> from the quill of lists @
lina .
inka .
de (Bernd Eckenfels) on scroll
> <m0uqYAU-0004k3C @
lina>
> > On a switched ethernet a NIC in promisc mode will only receive the
> > packets
> > which are broadcasted (i.e. ARP) and those which are send directly to the
> > HW-Address of the interface. Thats the reason why u have less collisions
> > with switches, cause they simply filter the Packets on the net for each
> > port. You can also lock the arp-addresses in the switch for more
> > security.
>
> 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.
>
>
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