Yeah that's the reason. Its not about talking to one another, its about
protecting from attacks that could allow snooping on traffic flows, to
hijacking.

-Blake


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wonder if it isn't the "not ping local to bcast domain" aspects of
> private
> vlans that make them attractive as much as it's the layer 2 protection you
> get to mitigate attacks on arp, mac table corruption/flooding, etc.
>
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:58 AM
> To: Alex Pressé
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] list wisdom please, Cisco switches
>
> On 15/01/2013 15:30, Alex Pressé wrote:
> > Using private VLANs should make quick work of keeping traffic separate.
>
> I don't get why people shouldn't be able to ping each other / etc.  Isn't
> this traffic functionally equivalent to any other Internet traffic?  What's
> different about it?
>
> Nick
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