Because this is a firewalls list, this thread can serve as a good segue
into a question about switch security that has been on my mind for some
time:
Most switches support remote management features like web interfaces,
SNMP, telnet, etc. If these switches hacked, someone can not only cause a
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ken Milder wrote:
Because this is a firewalls list, this thread can serve as a good segue
into a question about switch security that has been on my mind for some time:
Most switches support remote management features like web interfaces, SNMP,
telnet, etc. If these
I don't understand what you are saying. Are you suggesting that you simply
unpack your switches and plug them into the network right from the box?
Please don't say it's so, you've posted a lot of good thoughts in the
past, and I can't believe you'd actually suggest that now.
Bear in mind that a
Paul,
Thanks for your comments. You must have a small network. We have several
hundred subnets and thousands of nodes. Gathering traffic statistics,
installing patches and software upgrades, trouble shooting, and other
network management functions make remote management of our switches
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't understand what you are saying. Are you suggesting that you simply
unpack your switches and plug them into the network right from the box?
No, I'm saying that I've always tried to avoid plugging in a switch which
was configured to talk IP on
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ken Milder wrote:
Paul,
Thanks for your comments. You must have a small network. We have several
I've built and run networks from the tens of devices to the tens of
thousands.
hundred subnets and thousands of nodes. Gathering traffic statistics,
installing patches and
