On 4 Jun 2006, at 15:55, Nick Guenther wrote: > Being more restrictive will just end up being a pain. For example, > maybe two friends want to share a connection, so the first gets on and > then after a bit passes it off to the second who changes their IP and > MAC to match, but then bam, they can't get on. Or maybe someone > dualboots.
I don't know as I've never tried it, but what happens on a network when the same MAC address appears for two devices? The principal is one login = one person at a time. If they dualboot, once they've booted into another OS, either the dhcp server will give them the same address they had last time, or if their MAC is different they'll get a new IP, and will just have to login again to get access. If two people want to share, they can't, unless they have two separate accounts, or are willing to indulge in internet connection sharing. Most of this stuff is beyond the casual user anyhow, which is the intended audience. There's a limit to how many layers of protection I can build in, but I think this is probably far enough. Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! http://www.playr.co.uk/sudoku/ http://weblog.vanhegan.net/
