<quote who="Alex (LEX) Borges"> > On Wired networks its not so easy to cheat the mac address, this number > is set uniquely for each card in the world (or so my teacher said).
It's very easy to set the MAC Address on a linux box: ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:00:00:00:00:01 > Anyhow, its probably not all that hard either, but i think its a good > enough solution for controlled corporative environment where all you > want is to apply policies per user and such. The best thing would be to use x509 certs stored on USB tokens or smartcards greets Uwe -- X-Tec GmbH Institute for Computer and Network Security WWW : http://www.x-tec.de/ IPv6: http://www.ipv6.x-tec.de/