Re: help


touseef wrote:
in our university govt pdovide internet and take mac addresses and
activate internet on those mac addreses but some one stole my a mac
address and using internet on my pays how i can stop him plz tell any
software which can not show my mac address on any comp thanks


As Todd mentioned there is little you can do to stop them from cloning
your MAC address. But you should let your University know IMMEDIATELY
that this is happening. No telling what bad things they are doing and
it looks like YOU are doing them! Ask your IT people if they can
restrict access of your MAC address to a specific switch port (eg; your
dorm room). Of course if you roam the campus with a laptop that won't
work well. As Todd mentioned limiting access by just a MAC address is
very poor security. You don't mention if this is wired or wireless. If
its a wireless connection I would switch Universities, that would
really be a dumb access control method for wireless.

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