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2007-12-12 , 23:57
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Originally Posted by jaark View Post

Sniffing and spoofing MAC addresses is extremely easy and quick. MAC filtering is a level of protection that will serve you for seconds. You may as well not do it. In fact, you'd be better off monitoring and alerting on unauthorised MACs. That way you have a way of knowing a rogue device is attempting to connect to the network.

of course the would be attacker would have to know WHAT MAC addresses to spoof in order to get access. Not that it's that hard to figure out but still. Also you would need to be on when that other machine isn't or problems will show up. Of course this is first line of defense, not the last.