[DM-MUG] MAC address

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
> On another list someone mentioned using the Mac Address for access to
>  their wireless router. You can set this in Access Control in the
>  Airport utility to certain Mac Addresses. My question is: if I enter
>  the Mac Address of our two machines would these be the only computers
>  which could access the Airport? If so would a password for the
>  network be needed?

Some (I think many or even most) computers can change their MAC
address (often written in all caps since its an abbreviation and to
avoid confusion with Mac computers). If you want extra security it's a
good feature to enable along with your password. If you just want a
little security then you can use it instead of passwords. I personally
value my network security too much to rely on this technique alone.

Some routers are configurable and allow you to assign specific IP
addresses to different MAC addresses. In the past I've done this and
put unknown computers into different network subnets. I know of one
person who took this a step further and sent these unknown computers
through a proxy that turned all of the images upside down.
http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html


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Matthew Nuzum
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