Now what if your Gigaswitch port got fried? Dima Alan Hannan writes:
If you filtered me by MAC address I could swap cards and get in.
Unless you did inclusive filtering, and then if you wanted to peer with me, and I had to swap a card, you couldn't.
The gigaswitches do port filtering, I believe that was agreed to be the better choice.
I certainly hope it's a choice, at least, right Steve.... :)
-alan
Dima Volodin said: ] ] You don't mean changing one MAC address in Gigaswitch configuration is a ] bolder feat than swapping (failed) equipment, do you? ] ] ] Dima ] ] Deepak Jain writes: ] > ] > Problem is that if hardware fails or is swapped out, MAC addresses change. ] > ] > -Deepak. ] > ] > On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Dima Volodin wrote: ] > ] > > Isn't it possible to filter MAC addresses at Gigaswitches? ] > > ] > > ] > > Dima ] > > ] > > Paul Ferguson writes: ] > > > ] > > > Apparently people are still missing the point. On a shared media ] > > > exchange, there is nothing to preclude another entity from pointing ] > > > default to you even if they are *not* peering with you [a.k.a. bit-dumping]. ] > > > ] > > > - paul