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Re: Secure remote syslogging?



On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:09:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > How do you think switching a separate VLAN for this would be also secure 
> > enough? Is it a must to use a dedicated device?
> 
> Depends on your switch. A dedicated device is a MUCH better idea.

Yes, there are a number of well documented ways to get to traffic on
other vlans.  Basically, vlans exist to make management easier, not to
make traffic secure.

See http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20030305S0007 and the
references at the end of the article for more info.

noah

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