On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 01:38 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:06:27 +0200, > Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Having said all that, if your network is switched (as opposed to using > > cheap FE hubs), only broadcast traffic (ARP/DHCP/etc) will be visible in > > promisc mode. > > Mostly. There are other circumstances where a packet can be sent to all of > the ports even without machines/people trying to game things. > > General advice is to treat switches as a way of improving network related > performance (relative to hubs), not as security devices. I fully agree. (I never meant to suggest that switches are to be treated as security devices - though I can understand why my post could be read as such) If you want to move sensitive information over the wire, use strong encryption. - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
