[ale] Hardware Alias

[Matt Shade]

I personally don't have any reservations about it either. I guess I just
work more with corporate networks and security, and sometimes forget a lot
of us are talking about our own personal networks. Scott's situation, as
well as some high-availability failover systems/applications are perfect
examples of the necessity for hw address aliasing.

matt (speaking too quickly) shade
www.threekay.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Mills" <jmmills at telocity.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Matt Shade" <mshade at threekay.com>
Cc: <scottb at pixel-group.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 22:47
Subject: Re: [ale] Hardware Alias


> Scott -
>
> It's not what you were asking, but some firewall/router products can do
> this (LinkSys, for one). Though it can be abused, I think the usual
> motivation is installing the firewall/router behind a DSL connection which
> was tied to the MAC address of the card first used to connect. I don't
> have any reservations about that.
>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Matt Shade wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to do it, but MAC aliasing (spoofing) is a security
> > risk/breach. So you probably want to look into cracking software or
maybe
> > changing security code. I don't think there's any distro available to
allow
> > you to do what you're asking.
> > Some NICs allow you to use the DOS utilities disk to change the MAC
address,
> > but that's not on the fly, and requires a reboot.
>
> --
> Regards -
>  John Mills
>
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