Re: Re:

[Enkhyl <enkhyl () pobox com>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 amanda () wineasy se wrote:

> Why? There is very little security in a MAC address as
> they can be faked just as easily as IP addresses (in a
> LAN context). If you need secure communications with
> local machines then you'd be better off looking at VLAN,
> seperate cabling or VPN. Those are designed for
> security, MAC's are not.

VLANs were not designed for security purposes. Some would
argue they weren't even designed with security in mind, but
that is dependant on the implementation and debateable.

-- 
Christopher Nielsen
(enkhyl|cnielsen)@pobox.com
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." --rob pike


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