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RE: RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem
From: "Carl Friedberg" <friedberg () exs esb com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 09:51:13 -0500
Dodge wrote:
One other reason I prefer hubs there over switches is that I find it
easier to
debug network issues by sniffing the wire. Of course, I may have
sniffed more
traffic than many people at this point. ;-)
No doubt, sniffing is much easier on a hub than a switch. My point is simply that it takes less effort to observe all the traffic on the outside leg of a network if a hub is used to connect the nodes, than if a switch is used. Unmanaged switches are available and cheap. For instance, an 8 port HP unmanaged switch can be bought (J4097B) for $133 USD from their website. Finally, while it is not likely to be an issue on the outside leg of most networks, throughput will usually be much higher on a switched network than on a hubbed network... Carl Friedberg -----Original Message----- From: M. Dodge Mumford [mailto:dodge () nfr net] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:06 AM To: Carl Friedberg Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr com Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] RE: Sniffing out a firewall problem _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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