Re: About War Driving ..

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

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,
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 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
-- 
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becoming available."
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