From: James Ventre (messageboard@ventrefamily.com)
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 11:08:19 GMT-3
Well it's harder if you have your trunks use DTP for their formation.
All you have to do is bypass that by spitting a DTP packet you received
- back into the link - but it's one more step.
James
Curt Girardin wrote:
> Team,
>
> Is there a way to authenticate or secure a trunk link between switches?
> I'm not talking about VTP, but the links themselves...
>
> For example, every switchport in my business is running either
> port-security, VMPS, or 802.1x to keep the bad guys out.... If I put a
> switch into a public area, such as a conference room, there is nothing
> preventing a malicious user from plugging into the trunk port that feeds
> the switch in the conference room and having full-access to the network.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Curt
>
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