[34795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS and VLAN info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Mon Feb 19 21:47:23 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:43:39 -0800
From: Bora Akyol <akyol@akyol.org>
To: Michael Long <mlong@sac.verio.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Unless you are encrypting traffic, the only security advantage of MPLS and
VLANS is circuit isolation like FR or ATM.
Personally, I like my traffic encrypted.
Bora
> From: Michael Long <mlong@sac.verio.net>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:00:03 -0800 (PST)
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: MPLS and VLAN info
>
>
>
> I need to educate some coworkers (who aren't all that familiar with
> networks) and my boss on the security advantages of MPLS and VLAN's. I
> guess I don't seem to be communiating it very well because they just don't
> get it. Can anyone point me to some good technical docs that specifically
> deal with some of the benefints of MPLS and VLAN's. Specifically security
> related would help.
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael Long
>
>
