Re: potential security issues with embedded systems?

[Scott Bradner <sob () HARVARD EDU>]

VLANs are fine in their place but anyone deploying campus-wide VLANs
should have a nice long chat with someone who managed campus-wide
bridged networks when they were the "right way to go"

hint - there are a lot of hard management issues that come up - it is very
easy for a messed up device in one out of the way location to impact
network users across the campus

I would urge people to not see VLANs as some magic technology that
will somehow make it so you can avoid looking at security (a compromised
machine on a VLAN that is behind a firewall can still give access to
everything on the VLAN - etc) or management

Scott

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