Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:07:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Detecting sniffers (was: Re: security hole in FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199707292007.QAA15592@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970729154145.22895F-100000@chaos.amber.org> References: <284.870203173@critter.dk.tfs.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970729154145.22895F-100000@chaos.amber.org>
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<<On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org> said: > well, it does only allow a MAC to appear once, so you would realise this > quite quickly. But a switch is the same as well, unless you've hard > coaded VLAN type information based on MAC addresses into the > switch---which is unmaintainable. But which some organizations do anyway, because it allows them to force their users to get permission to install any new machine. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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