Re: Firewall with MAC address ACL that is dynamic
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Re: Firewall with MAC address ACL that is dynamic

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 19:27:38 CEST

bjriffel@ho__tmail.com <bjriffel@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be better for us just to set up snort or something
> on that network to detect virus/trojan activity?

Yes. You could use a sniffer to detect that and to block the IP of the
user and inform her/him.

Yours,
VB.

-- 
MAC-Filtering bringt so viel Schutz vor "Hackern" wie Zeitungspapier vor
einer Atombome. (MAC filtering is protecting against "hackers" like newsprint
is protecting against a nuclear bomb)
                  - Christian Forler in de.comp.security.misc
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:11:10 2005