From: Robert Lowe (Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 10:29:38 CDT
John Crowley wrote:
Hi John!
> Someone just mentioned that Netreg 2 supports unregistering a system and
> not allowing it to re-register. I recently built this into my netreg
> 1.3rc2 setup. In case anyone is interested I'll share it here.
<snip>
> I hope we rarely have to use this function, but it was fun to build.
Looks good, John! I wonder how useful this functionality would really
be though, for a couple of reasons: 1) it's hard to restrict a person,
which is usually what you really want, and 2) it's easy to get another
MAC address. To really stop a MAC address, I'd rather create a blackhole
list in a switch or router, which is effective even if someone manually
assigns themselves an IP address. What do you think?
-Robert
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