Re: How Secure is Layer 2 ???

From: Richard Davidson (rich@myhomemail.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 16:40:45 GMT-3


when the cam table is full the switch will foward
traffic out all ports. So if a hacker was able to
fillup the cam table the vlan would do nothing.

--- Trevor Angus <trevor.angus@t-systems.co.za> wrote:
> Here is an interesting question. I want to configure
> a Pix FW to provide a
> controlled connection between 2 Vlans on a switch
> (Cisco 3550 or 6500).
> There is no layer 3 routing enabled for the
> "outside" interface vlan so in
> theory there should be no way to break out of that
> vlan.
>
> In theory I can't see a problem but perhaps I'm
> missing something???
>
> Cheers
> Trevor
> .
>



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