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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Nielsen" <nielsen@memberwebs.com>
To:        "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Joao Carlos" <jcrr@ieee.org>
Cc:        "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org>, "Ken Ebling" <kebling@us-it.net>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw/dummynet suggestion
Message-ID:  <20020629225348.F2DAD43E06@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <000801c21f1c$029cefe0$0201a8c0@Ken> <3D1D4EB3.9410011@mindspring.com> <20020629170251.65DDB43E13@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20020629110237.A73787@iguana.icir.org> <001f01c21f99$3c363cc0$1e6eb0c8@pchome> <3D1E2B38.A70658EA@mindspring.com>

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> Seriously, I'm wondering what "security restrictions" are so
> onerous that users are willing to change their IP addresses to
> get around them, and why they are there in the first place?

Well in certain cases it's company policy that certain machines (ie: users)
can't browse the web during certain hours. I didn't make the rules, just
asked to implement them.

> Finally, I'll suggest that if you truly want to implement this
> thing, that the "correct" way to do it is probably to use the
> per machine NT Domain Controller information via hacking up the
> code from the SAMBA project, so that you can *ask* the NT domain
> controller for the credentials associated with an IP address,
> since this access control model is why NT Domaons were designed.

True, but often the simplest, semi-reliable solution wins out, so it came
down to machines and MAC addresses.

Nate




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