RE: How Secure is Layer 2 ???

From: West, Jeff (westj@telecomsys.com)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 18:45:53 GMT-3


Don't do it. It is too much of a risk IMHO. Here is another link as to
why you should not do it:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/about/ac123/ac114/ac173/ac222/about
_cisco_packet_feature09186a0080142deb.html

Jeff West
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
(813) 831-6353 x118

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd A. Kaczorowski [mailto:tkaczoro@cisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:42 AM
To: 'Trevor Angus'; security@groupstudy.com
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: How Secure is Layer 2 ???

Cisco recently commissioned to look into this very issue.

The results of the research can be found at :

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/tech/stake_wp.pd
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Trevor Angus
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:46 PM
To: security@groupstudy.com
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: How Secure is Layer 2 ???

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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