[olug] mystifying cable modem problem

[Bill Brush]

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 08/30/2004 10:18:07 PM:


> >From what I hear, some switches "fail open" or revert to a hub like
> mode if they
> are overwhelmed (buffer overrun?) or otherwise compromised. If you
> can make that
> happen on the network in question, you can see pretty much everything.

This is true, although I think most of the major manufacturers of business
grade equipment have eliminated this when they realized that crackers were
exploiting the behavior.

Bill