Getting the MAC address is a trivial exercise. I can think of several ways with a laptop and a IP analyzer, and it would take only a minute or two.
John Graves WA1JG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Maas wrote: > Doug Franklin wrote: > >> mike wilson wrote: >> >> >>>> Well, maybe I'm being overly paranoid, but that lets it out for me. I'm >>>> not going to have a user that gets in without authentication and has >>>> write privileges to /any/ part of my system. Not even with WEP. >>>> >>> If it's assigning a MAC address to the card and then only allowing that MAC >>> address access? >>> >> Many Ethernet cards can be configured to present any MAC address you >> want to the network, so that's no real protection. >> >> > > Yes, but you need to KNOW an allowed MAC, which is non-trivial to find. > > -Adam > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
