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Re: government eavesdropping

  • From: Alex Bligh
  • Date: Fri Feb 25 12:12:16 2000 
> > The aggregate bandwidth of the MAE
> > makes them using a SPAN port virtually impossible.  If memory serves, the
> > MAE traffic is several times 100Mbps.
> 
> SPAN ports were not always infeasible and certainly are quite

Various switch vendors are promissing SPAN in conjunction with
dynamically configurable L3 filtering. This has innocent uses too.


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Alex Bligh
VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation
(formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)