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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:01:37 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.net>, Bill Fink <bill@billfink.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907020954510.21228-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990702104239.X69050@pavilion.net>

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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote:
	[ ... ]
> He's on a local area network that I'm part of.  I provide routed access to
> the internet, but he's allowed access to the network to connect to other
> users (this is at home, not at work - he rent's a room from me.)  The problem
> is that he's running Internet Explorer 5 in stupid "go on line for no reason
> at all" mode and until he's either un-installed it, or fixed the problem
> I've told him that I'm shutting down his internet access.  That said he's
> been a naughty boy and changed his IP address a couple of times to other
> people's.  He thinks that I don't know, but of course I've got changing
> ARP addresses.  What I'd like to do now is ignore his MAC address on the 
> server instead to get around this.  (I could disconnect him from the network
> but that's harder to police.)

Ah, much better detail. <BOFH> He can be your toy, then! </BOFH>

Nothing quite like flood-pinging a WinBox on a local segment! Could you
proxy&cache the requests to reduce actual net traffic?

You can also hardwire your ARP table for the other users' addresses and
flush non-perm entries frequently... - Jy@



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