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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

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