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One MAC per port is very low yield, won’t do anything to stop even a mildly sophisticated attacker, and often just makes life more difficult than it needs to be
by braindeath 7y ago
One MAC per port is very low yield, won’t do anything to stop even a mildly sophisticated attacker, and often just makes life more difficult than it needs to be. Especially for a college network where any notion that the general network is “secure” is a complete joke.
- walrus01 7y agoIt's not meant to be a comprehensive security plan, but rather a very easy thing to have configured on each port, to stop people from plugging $20 8 port dumb switches into managed infrastructure.
- braindeath 7y agoBut not a $30 wireless router. And again there’s no need to be so draconian on something like a ResNet.