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Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network
From: "Eagle Fire" <tlecuauhtli () googlemail com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:48:45 +0000
I guess the cleaner has a username and a password to authenticate its router to the node with 802.1x. If it thats the case, any bad use of the network with this username would be log. As a network admin you can even disconect the node. If you have the key, you can open the door. What we are trying to protect with 802.1X is the access without the key. If the cleaner does not have a username and password, sorry, you do not have access to the network even with your router. -tlecu
Terrible analogy (but aren't they always?). Let's try again. I'm a cleaner in an office. Rather than the $10 hub I splash out and buy a $30 wireless hub and router. One evening, I unplug a network printer and attach my router to the network and the printer to the router. Stick it under a table or behind a filing cabinet and in most offices no one will have a clue that it is there. The whole street now has access to your network and 802.1x won't help you one bit. How does that fit your analogy?
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- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network, (continued)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Mircea MITU (Mar 09)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Ron Gula (Mar 11)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Eagle Fire (Mar 14)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Ron Gula (Mar 11)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Alice Bryson (Mar 14)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Kurt Buff (Mar 20)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Jean-Philippe Luiggi (Mar 21)
- RE: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Craig Wright (Mar 11)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Eagle Fire (Mar 17)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network auto62996 (Mar 20)
- RE: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Craig Wright (Mar 21)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Eagle Fire (Mar 27)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network auto62996 (Mar 30)
- Re: Scan for "outsider" Pcs on network Mircea MITU (Mar 09)