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| 1856.1 | | NETCAD::HERTZBERG | History: Love it or Leave it! | Tue Jan 10 1995 14:28 | 16 |
| You are correct that what they are describing is neither intrusion nor
eavesdropping security. We have no such feature in our repeaters.
>> Is there anybody else who can do it?
I don't know a definitive answer to this question, but most vendor's
designs aren't terribly different than ours in how the repeaters are
built. That being the case, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to
this question was NO.
It doesn't sound like you're missing anything. More likely the
government agency making this request doesn't understand exactly what
they want, or else is unaware that what they are asking for is not an
available feature of repeaters.
Marc
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| 1856.2 | They've got repeaters confused with bridges perhaps... | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | | Tue Jan 10 1995 17:53 | 10 |
| >It doesn't sound like you're missing anything. More likely the
>government agency making this request doesn't understand exactly what
>they want, or else is unaware that what they are asking for is not an
>available feature of repeaters.
Perhaps the requestor of the government agency thinks that repeaters
can "filter" on a per port basis like a bridge can, which obviously
repeaters wern't intended to be able to do.
Bob
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| 1856.3 | | CGOOA::PITULEY | Ain't technology wonderful? | Wed Jan 11 1995 10:09 | 10 |
| Um...perhaps what the gov't agency is after is a SynOptics-like ability
to do per-port security. SynOptics does this by building a table that
holds valid HW addresses for each port. No other address will be able
to pass data on that port....
Perhaps...
Brian Pituley
NPC, Calgary
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| 1856.4 | | NETCAD::HERTZBERG | History: Love it or Leave it! | Wed Jan 11 1995 13:59 | 8 |
| re: -.1
That's intrusion protection. We do this already, with the number of
addresses supported per port variable depending on the product.
What .0 says they are asking for is a filtering function as Bob
mentioned, but he wants it to happen between nodes on the _same_ LAN.
Certainly our repeaters don't do this.
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| 1856.5 | We may be talking about the same thing but... | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | | Wed Jan 11 1995 14:31 | 6 |
| Besides, we all know there's the "Digital Dictionary", the
"Industry standard Dictionary", and the "Government Agency Dictionary".
We may all be talking the same thaing, but sometimes it takes a
while to sort it out. :-)
Bob
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