Yahoogroups and Carnivore

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Mon Sep 17 19:58:39 UTC 2001


At 03:42 PM 9/17/2001 -0400, Cristopher Daniluk wrote:
 >That's just a silly statement, it's a text processor/parser. It's another
 >layer. Of course its going to have an effect. On the average person, I would
 >venture to guess its overwhelmingly negligible, but it could very well
 >bottleneck someone like Yahoo.

My understanding is that it is no inline, it uses a "monitor port" on a 
switch which duplicates all traffic.

If that is the case, then it is not a silly statement, it is factually correct.

Can anyone confirm or deny the above?


 >Cristopher Daniluk

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TTFN,
patrick




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