Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Absolute beginner's question

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:09:00 +1100
----- Original Message -----
From: activeco [at] home.nl
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:29 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Re: Absolute beginner's question


> On 23 Jan 2003 at 18:08, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> Thank you Guy. I tried direct cable modem connection and it works
> fine.
> On the other side, it gives me more confidence in switch as a reliable
> protection tool.

Sorry but you drew the wrong conclusions from Guys email.
It is a mistake to base protection around certain properties of a switch
that can be trivially
circumvented.
If you need protection/security/privacy you can NOT use this property of a
switch to acheive it.
The ONLY way to gain it is by using IPSec or similar.