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Now what if your Gigaswitch port got fried? Dima Alan Hannan writes: > > If you filtered me by MAC address I could swap cards and get in. > > Unless you did inclusive filtering, and then if you wanted to peer > with me, and I had to swap a card, you couldn't. > > The gigaswitches do port filtering, I believe that was agreed to > be the better choice. > > I certainly hope it's a choice, at least, right Steve.... :) > > -alan > > Dima Volodin said: > ] > ] You don't mean changing one MAC address in Gigaswitch configuration is a > ] bolder feat than swapping (failed) equipment, do you? > ] > ] > ] Dima > ] > ] Deepak Jain writes: > ] > > ] > Problem is that if hardware fails or is swapped out, MAC addresses change. > ] > > ] > -Deepak. > ] > > ] > On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Dima Volodin wrote: > ] > > ] > > Isn't it possible to filter MAC addresses at Gigaswitches? > ] > > > ] > > > ] > > Dima > ] > > > ] > > Paul Ferguson writes: > ] > > > > ] > > > Apparently people are still missing the point. On a shared media > ] > > > exchange, there is nothing to preclude another entity from pointing > ] > > > default to you even if they are *not* peering with you [a.k.a. bit-dumping]. > ] > > > > ] > > > - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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