On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:36:18PM -0400, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote: > I've been around long enough to remember having an AUI NIC that would take > down a segment even when the NIC WAS NOT PLUGGED INTO THE PC. Suspicion was > that there was a short in the transceiver that was causing massive > reflections back into the segment. This is annoying. I once did a similar thing to a netgear "managed" switch setup in two VLANs. Experimenting, I setup a crossover cable between the two VLANs to see how real the separation was. My theory was that it would work like having two separate switches. I was wrong. It took down the whole network as if I had run a crossover back into a switch that wasn't partitioned. I don't know whether or not this is a bug or not, but it makes me wonder just how good this netgear managed switch is and if I should replace it with something better for my internal DMZ purposes. Seth -- Seth Alan Woolley [seth at positivism.org], SPAM/UCE is unauthorized Key id EF10E21A = 36AD 8A92 8499 8439 E6A8 3724 D437 AF5D EF10 E21A http://smgl.positivism.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEF10E21A Security Team Leader Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org
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