Re: FW: FW: security opinions please [7:3666]

2001-05-08 Thread Jim Gillen
Very passionate but I think you missed the point...and got it at the same time. You are right nothing is safe including firewalls which have various degrees of accreditation by national security advisory groups, including the military which have higher levels than most. You can only ever minimise

FW: FW: security opinions please [7:3666]

2001-05-08 Thread Eric Rivard
call me naive, but how can a hacker know you are connected to a switch? Let alone find the IP address of the switch if it is on the internal address? Yes the switch is separating traffic by software, but isn't very firewall doing the same thing? PIX, CheckPoint, Cisco IOS Firewall feature set, are