Re: IP to MAC translation

[Alan Cox]

> I think I can convince the admin to remove the terminal-only access if a
> user must log in from a certain IP address verified by the specific MAC
> address of their NIC.

MAC addresses are trivially rewritable or fakeable. That wont give you
security. Similarly if the terminal servers are over ethernet then decnet
is also trivially spoofable

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