Re: vlan

From: Olivier Nicole (on@cs.ait.ac.th)
Date: 02/27/01 

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:58:15 +0700 (ICT)
From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To: shupilov@technobank.com.by

Well, as I once heard a guy sayinf in a seminar about security, if you
plan to deal with security, do NOT use vlan.

Vlan only goal is to present broadcast packets to leak to every
interface. Vlan should not be trusted beyond that.

So maybe security list is not the best place to ask :)

Olivier

>i'm strongly needet to set up vlan on my freebsd-box
>but unfortunately i can't find any clear instruction how to do it
>there are a lot of hearing that it is already impossible

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