Sam Quigley wrote:
>
> Because they can, sometimes, be made to fail open. Then, everything
> is on one big LAN, and standard switch sniffing methods can reveal
> all the network traffic.
>
> -sq
I know that Dug Song's macoffr tool and a few others will cause older
Nortel and some other older switches to "fail open" and more or less
behave like a hub once the mac table is full, but I haven't ever been
able to produce this across VLAN's (say across multiple Baystacks or
Catalysts). Do you have any docs on this?
--shawn
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Received on Feb 07 2001