Your method would allow someone to attach their computer to the network, certainly, but it would not allow them to bypass the traffic shaping limitations configured for that host. That is the goal of the original poster, as I understand.
- jsw -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Holger Lubitz Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:08 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: users bypassing shaper limitation Jeff S Wheeler proclaimed: > cards around. If I do not, they will grumble and/or disable the ethernet > ports that unknown MAC addresses appear on. In some areas (e.g. student > labs) they do that automatically so kids can't just bring their laptop in > and hop on napster at 100Mbit. Easy. Disconnect any machine, set your MAC/IP-addresses to its addresses, connect your laptop. Don't know its addresses? Just sniff around on the port for a while, but make sure you keep quiet. Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
