[42521] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoogroups and Carnivore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Sep 17 16:11:59 2001
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:58:39 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu, cris@dsnet.net,
"'Joel Jaeggli'" <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
"'Jay Fenello'" <Jay@Fenello.com>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 03:42 PM 9/17/2001 -0400, Cristopher Daniluk wrote:
>That's just a silly statement, it's a text processor/parser. It's another
>layer. Of course its going to have an effect. On the average person, I would
>venture to guess its overwhelmingly negligible, but it could very well
>bottleneck someone like Yahoo.
My understanding is that it is no inline, it uses a "monitor port" on a
switch which duplicates all traffic.
If that is the case, then it is not a silly statement, it is factually correct.
Can anyone confirm or deny the above?
>Cristopher Daniluk
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TTFN,
patrick
