Re: Strange pings from 127.0.0.1

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Date: 06/24/04

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    To: Kelly John Rose <mllists@ptbcanadian.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:30:31 -0600

    On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:07, Kelly John Rose wrote:
    > Nope, that's completely useless. You can for one spoof mac addresses, so
    > having any mac address is more or less meaningless. But, also, there is
    > no reliable way to use the mac address to find the machine, unless it's
    > an internal machine, you having the mac addresses of all internal
    > machines written down, and the person is not spoofing.

    Not completely useless... with a sniffed MAC, there's a good chance I
    can investigate a little and determine whether it is internal, and if it
    is, what switchport it's on (and therefore, in my case, which room it is
    in). Even determining the traffic is coming from outside my network is
    a helpful bit of knowledge.

    -matt

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