[27579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: government eavesdropping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Fri Feb 25 12:11:14 2000
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: michael.dillon@gtsip.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "25 Feb 2000 16:29:18 GMT."
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> > The aggregate bandwidth of the MAE
> > makes them using a SPAN port virtually impossible. If memory serves, the
> > MAE traffic is several times 100Mbps.
>
> SPAN ports were not always infeasible and certainly are quite
Various switch vendors are promissing SPAN in conjunction with
dynamically configurable L3 filtering. This has innocent uses too.
--
Alex Bligh
VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation
(formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)
