On 9/19/2017 8:39 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > As a response to someone else's cmts, the set of kids who knows how > they're being blocked is a small subset of all kids, and those who know > that a MAC address can be forged is a small subset of the previous. And > *then* they'd have to find out a valid MAC address. all it takes is one kid, who then shares his 'trick' with other kids, and blam. > > On top of that, it would seem to me that the ones for whom you have a > registered MAC address is either hardwired, and so on, permanently, or the > teachers and staff are in before the students, mostly, and so when a > student tries to spoof the MAC, they get refused, since the real system > already has the IP address. that presumes all the reserved systems are on 24/7. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz