RE: future of IDS

[Jonathan Rozes <jrozes () vinton com>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tupshin Harper wrote:

> 2) With the reality of GB LAN networking nearing the mainstream, has
> anybody(switch vendor or other) speculated on having for example a 10/100MB
> switch that has a GB port that can spit out all traffic on all ports for
> monitoring?  Would seem like an ideal solution for the security conscious.

The Cabletron 2H252-25R will do this. It's a 24-port 10/100 switch with
an additional slot for a high-speed uplink (gig ethernet available). It's
not clear if the gig port can be used for mirroring, but I don't see why
it couldn't be. See http://www.cabletron.com/products/items/2H252-25R/ for
details. Their larger capacity switches can do this as well.

My general impression of Cabletron stuff has been that it's very good, but
very expensive.

Hope this helps!

jonathan

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