G'day,
One problem that springs immediately to mind is that there is probably a PHY
problem - unless your switch supports ADSL / ISDN / X.21 serial or whatever.
Another is that it would be very difficult to move to a firewall / DMZ
environment in the future (without using VLANS or something - which gives
security people the shudders).
I think the more useful question is - what are the advantages? Please don't
say speed, unless you have 100Mb+ fibre into your upstream ISP. If you do,
however, then I (personally) would look at pulling the fibre straight into
the external interface of your firewall (which I have seen in a few places),
and making sure that your FW supports that sort of speed.
Cheers!
--
Ben Nagy
Network Security Specialist
Marconi Services Australia Pty Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dickens, Jon (MOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 7:10
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Boundary switch ??
>
>
> Wondering if anyone has heard of any company moving from
> having a router as
> their boundary device connecting to the internet to a a switch with a
> routing module. Aware that you could possibly face loss of
> more internal
> functionality from a DOS attack due to losing the switching
> capability but
> can think of no other strong reasons assuming device has full
> IP routing
> functionality.
>
> Any thoughts ??
>
> Jon Dickens
> JLD Consulting Ltd.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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