On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:07:30 Ishfaq Malik wrote: > Our customer has a switch but a non configurable one which sounds no > better than a hub to me, I think I'm going to have to get him to invest > in some better hardware.
Many consumer-grade switches effectively turn into hubs when more than 1023 MAC addresses are seen on a network. This may be done intentionally by somebody attempting to eavesdrop on all network connections sent through the switch. A reboot of the switch might (temporarily) remedy the problem, but you'd be better off getting an enterprise-grade switch that does not exhibit such misbehavior. -- Tilghman Lesher Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer twitter: Corydon76 | IRC: Corydon76-dig (Freenode) Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
