On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:14 AM, RB <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
> > I disagree. While it'll work, its security is nowhere near the same. It
> > depends on the VLAN switch's firmware being bugfree (we all know about
> > how likely that is), it adds complexity, and it mixes physically
> > separate networks together on one cable. Perhaps it might be acceptable
> > to merge networks of the same security level, merging LAN and WAN
> > networks doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
>
> Entertain me, it's been literally a decade since I last saw someone
> imply that switch VLAN implementations were generally of dubious
> nature.  Can you perhaps point me to a recent VLAN-crossing
> vulnerability, or documented VLAN crosstalk?  We all know about the
> old CAM table overflows, but that's been long fixed.
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>


I posted this a while ago:


http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/77

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/25

I love VLANs, I use the heck out of them but I cannot wait until we get
more and more into software switching and it becomes a reality that my
switch firmware is open-source.

Also, just because a vulnerability has not been reported or discovered,
does not mean it does not exist.
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