Re: Cisco Catalyst switches

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Andy Murren wrote:

> : It would be interesting if there was a vulnerability that allowed you to
> : break the VLAN definitions.. I know many companies that practically run
> : their entire networks together into several Catalysts via VLANS :) Secure
> : networks and public ones right next to each other.
> :
> : I thought that based on the nature of VLANS that they would not be
> : susceptible to attack from the network layer because they switch traffic
> : based on the port number, not on any content of the frame or packet? Still,
> : it would be interesting :)
> :
>
> What about redefining the VLANs in the config?  Of course that would
> require getting control of the switch.

that's what we have snmp for :D

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