customers and web servers and level one naps

Tue Sep 10 22:03:28 UTC 1996

On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Justin W. Newton wrote:

> >Therefore, you should only connect trusted pieces of equipment to a
> >level-2 media unless it is being used as a point-to-point media. Lets use
> >Ethernet as an example. If you connect a customer web server to an
> >Ethernet then they can sniff any traffic that goes by and possibly do
> >nasty things like spoofing. Even if they would never do such a thing they
> >may be hacked by somebody who would do such a thing. So it is not a good
> >idea to share a level 2 media in this way.
> 
> The MAE's are switches.  Unless you are sending super secret BROADCAST
> traffic the security implications you are mentioning are non-existant.

What about people hacking MAC addresses or screwing around with ARP and
BOOTP? He was asking about attaching a customer web server to the exchange
so presumably anything could be done on that box. 

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