>>I'm sorry, but this is simply an unsupportable statement. What is >>required of routers is that the provider be able to configure the device >>to make copies of certain packets to a monitoring port. Assuming that >>the monitoring port is duly managed, how does this qualify as "insecure"? > > > It qualifies as "insecure" because if that rather dubious assumption fails to > be true, you have a big problem.
If any port on a router is not duly managed, you have a big problem. Tony
