[geeks] Firewall recommendation?

[Kris Kirby]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Mike Meredith wrote:
> The more I learn about Cisco, the less impressed I get. Ignoring their 
> academic support which is abysmal, you can come across some more serious 
> issues. Latest I've discovered is that Cisco switches sometimes seem to 
> misdirect (actually it gets delivered to multiple places) unicast 
> traffic on a VLAN.

As I'm lead to believe, that's a feature, not a problem. They flood 
packets out of interfaces so they can locate the correct responding host 
by seeing who replies. Yes, if I were in DoD-land, I'd probably be 
complaining about that, but I'd also have a different list of vendors to 
choose from....

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