Transport Mode IPSEC

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 18 08:25:35 UTC 2007


On 1/18/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
>   You do realize, don't you, that since both of these hosts are on a switch,
> and are using unicast traffic to communicate with each other, that they
> cannot be sniffed, don't you?
>
>   You might read up on ethernet switching technology a bit before
> answering that.

I'm sorry to be the one to make this remark but it's
you who needs to read a bit to learn (a) how to sniff
traffic off most Ethernet switches from D-Link to
Cisco; (b) what other security risks unprotected NFSv3
shares pose.


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