On Nov 15, 2007 9:32 AM, Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What's the point, though, unless you're in a setup where 90%+ of the > computers change every year[1]? the point... network hygiene and accountability.. to make it harder for an unknown malicious person to connect an unknown computer into a live network wall jack somewhere in your building and become a member of that network segment with equal access to network data that registered computers have. If you require everyone to centrally register and bind ips to mac addresses, then you make it much easier to hold specific human beings accountable when the computers registered to their names start acting maliciously. -jef"Corporate and international governmental agency espionage is awesome!"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
