[5961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bit-dumping [Was: Re: Peering Policy]y
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Volodin)
Wed Oct 30 14:52:45 1996
To: hannan@UU.NET (Alan Hannan)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:43:13 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dvv@sprint.net, deepak@jain.com, pferguso@cisco.com, pritish@iocenter.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <QQbnry07088.199610301937@odin.UU.NET> from "Alan Hannan" at Oct 30, 96 02:37:16 pm
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
Now what if your Gigaswitch port got fried?
Dima
Alan Hannan writes:
>
> If you filtered me by MAC address I could swap cards and get in.
>
> Unless you did inclusive filtering, and then if you wanted to peer
> with me, and I had to swap a card, you couldn't.
>
> The gigaswitches do port filtering, I believe that was agreed to
> be the better choice.
>
> I certainly hope it's a choice, at least, right Steve.... :)
>
> -alan
>
> Dima Volodin said:
> ]
> ] You don't mean changing one MAC address in Gigaswitch configuration is a
> ] bolder feat than swapping (failed) equipment, do you?
> ]
> ]
> ] Dima
> ]
> ] Deepak Jain writes:
> ] >
> ] > Problem is that if hardware fails or is swapped out, MAC addresses change.
> ] >
> ] > -Deepak.
> ] >
> ] > On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Dima Volodin wrote:
> ] >
> ] > > Isn't it possible to filter MAC addresses at Gigaswitches?
> ] > >
> ] > >
> ] > > Dima
> ] > >
> ] > > Paul Ferguson writes:
> ] > > >
> ] > > > Apparently people are still missing the point. On a shared media
> ] > > > exchange, there is nothing to preclude another entity from pointing
> ] > > > default to you even if they are *not* peering with you [a.k.a. bit-dumping].
> ] > > >
> ] > > > - paul
