On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:34:54PM -0400, David Chen wrote: > > > MAC addresses are trivially rewritable or fakeable. That wont give you > > security. Similarly if the terminal servers are over ethernet then decnet > > is also trivially spoofable > > How do you spoof MAC addresses? I thought they were hard-coded > in the ethernet hardware/firmware. Why would any ethernet card maker > let anyone easily write into ethernet firmware? Doesn't that defeat > the whole idea of ethernet addresses being unique? MAC address takeover for HA solutions. Just to mention one application. Dominik Kubla -- Networking Group, Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg-University Obere Zahlbacher Straße 69, 55101 Mainz, Germany Tel: +49 (0)6131 17-2482 FAX: +49 (0)6131 17-5521 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
