RE: Use of Taps for IDS

From: Greg Shipley (gshipley@neohapsis.com)
Date: 02/28/02


Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:52:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Greg Shipley <gshipley@neohapsis.com>
To: "Reidy, Patrick" <Patrick.Reidy@veritect.com>


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Reidy, Patrick wrote:

> A switching hub (short for port-switching hub) is a device that forwards
> packets to a given port based on the packet's address. Unlike normal hubs
> that rebroadcast all packets to all ports. Since switching hubs forward each
> packet only to the needed port, they are a lot faster. They work on the
> network address (ip) and not the mac address (like a switch).

Uh, yeah, that's just a switch, no?

-Greg



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