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Re: About War Driving ..
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:04:33 +0100
On 2006-12-13 Erick Jensen wrote:
The entire staff of the University of Minnesota is also run that way. The students with wireless laptops are the only computers with DHCP access. The ports are bound to an IP and if you don't have it right,
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you don't get access.
I suppose you mean "MAC addresses are bound to ports" here. Anyway, That's something you can do when you have a wired network where the devices are connected through switches. On a wireless network you simply don't have this option, because a) you cannot bind a MAC address to a specific port, and b) the MAC addresses are broadcast on the radio.
It is a pain, unless you have good documentation. We had a nice database to work from, so there were only a few isolated problems. It's do-able if you have the right setup from the ground up!
It's doable if you have a wired network. It's utterly futile if you have a wireless network. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by: ByteCrusher Detect Malicious Web Content and Exploits in Real-Time. Anti-Virus engines can't detect unknown or new threats. LinkScanner can. Web surfing just became a whole lot safer. http://www.explabs.com/staging/promotions/xern_lspro.asp?loc=sfmaildetect ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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