RE: Locking down a network connection to a single machine.

From: Holger van Lengerich (mediaWays) (hvl@mediaways.net)
Date: 05/19/02 

Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 11:53:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Holger van Lengerich (mediaWays)" <hvl@mediaways.net>
To: "Ogle Ron (Rennes)" <OgleR@thmulti.com>

Hi,

> My objective is really to try to make an Ethernet connection as secure as
> possible without using encryption.

If you're using a cross-overcable, "ifconfig <int> down" triggered by
syslog-messages like "SUNW,<int> 100 Mbps full duplex link down" could be
implemented as failsafe-mechanism.

Regards,
  Holger van Lengerich 

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