On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 10:19, Austad, Jay wrote: > The U is using MAC addresses to verify that you can be on the network? > That's silly. Don't they have some better method of authentication? I'd love to hear something that would work better with simple 802.11b hardware and easily installed software on Win9x/NT/etc, MacOS 8/9/X, and Linux/*BSD/Unix. Really, I would. I'm not trying to be an ass. > Hrm... couldn't you plug in and sniff for ARP requests to get some MAC > addresses and use ifconfig to change yours to someone elses who is already > registered on the network? Then you could hop on the network without a > registered card. :) Just a thought. You probably need to have a card that can sniff the aether without being associated with an AP (some of the APs use RADIUS authentication on your MAC address to see if you can associate). I don't play with that stuff enough to know if that's common or not. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Why are there 5 syllables / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ in the word `monosyllabic'? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020805/c985a3f9/attachment.pgp