North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Justin W. Newton wrote: > >Therefore, you should only connect trusted pieces of equipment to a > >level-2 media unless it is being used as a point-to-point media. Lets use > >Ethernet as an example. If you connect a customer web server to an > >Ethernet then they can sniff any traffic that goes by and possibly do > >nasty things like spoofing. Even if they would never do such a thing they > >may be hacked by somebody who would do such a thing. So it is not a good > >idea to share a level 2 media in this way. > > The MAE's are switches. Unless you are sending super secret BROADCAST > traffic the security implications you are mentioning are non-existant. What about people hacking MAC addresses or screwing around with ARP and BOOTP? He was asking about attaching a customer web server to the exchange so presumably anything could be done on that box. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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