Re: [despammed] Re: promiscuous mode
Saturday, May 24, 2003, 9:01:01 AM, debian-security@lists.debian.org (debian-security) wrote:
Ian> Thanks for that. I have cheap netgear switch at the moment connected to one
Ian> of the network's hubs. If
Ian> I invested in an expensive switch (like cisco or something) that could go to
Ian> lower layers then would I find
Ian> that this traffic went away? The reason I ask is that my friends server in
Ian> redbus doesn't have this problem...
Yes, more expensive switches will have support for VLANs, which you
can use to segment broadcast domains.
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