Do I understand you correctly that your 6808s have both internal (secure) 
and external (unsecure) traffic on them, separated only by VLAN?

At 09:30 PM 6/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>All,
>
>We have two 3640's and two Extreme Black Diamond 6808's (aka 6509's).
>The two 3640's are doing IBGP between them on each of their eth0's.  I
>have created a vlan on the Extremes called 'unsecure'(there are only 2
>ports on each Extreme in this vlan... one coming in from the 3640 and
>the other going into the firewall).  I am getting some complaints from
>the 'uppers' that bringing the 3640's into the Extreme's is a security
>hazard.
>
>I am sure someone is now working on a way to hack from one vlan to the
>next, but for now, I don't see the difference between putting a hub in
>there and using a couple of ports on these monster
>'almost-never-go-down' switches.  I just don't want another unmanaged
>piece of equipment in the flow.
>
>Has anyone ever heard of this being a leak.  I worked in a datacenter
>before and this is what we did with 6509's and we didn't blink!  I know
>these are Extreme switches... which is probably taboo in the group, but
>I am pretty sure this would be platform independent... right????
>
>Thanks,
>
>bk




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