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Subject: Re: Blocking MAC Addresses
From: Russel Smith (carlosARKPACIFIC.COM)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 22:58:08 CDT

Again this depends on the size of your company,

Policys may or may not be effective for your organisation, I have worked
at smaller organisations where everybody knows eachother and we have found
no need for what you mentioned below. However in much larger corporations
it is more likely that you could get sued etc..

At 08:14 AM 8/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim is right. Without the policy to back you up, your powerless. If you
>block her you run the risk of being sued for harassment. You company needs
>to first put into writing what the employees are allowed to do with network
>resources and then if and when a person violates it you have a well defined
>punishment system that the employee is well aware of. A piece of paper may
>not be that technically advanced, but in this case it is more powerful than
>any technological solution you can come up with.
>
>Michael E. Harmer
>Miller-Valentine Group
>4000 Miller-Valentine Ct.
>Dayton, OH 45439-1487
>x804
>mharmermvg.com
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Barscheski [mailto:jimbPICATINNYCU.ORG]
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:59 PM
>To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
>Subject: Re: Blocking MAC Addresses
>
>
>Hi,
>
>just my $0.02, but wouldn't it be easier to implement and enforce an
>acceptable use policy that restricts (among other things) employees from
>attaching their own personal equipment to your network?
>
>If you have her MAC address of her laptop's NIC you could create a
>reservation for it and then whenever that IP appeared in any of your logs
>you would know that she's violating your policy...
>
>that's how I'd do it...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bilder, Jeffry [SMTP:JBilderMCR.MEDICHEM.COM]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:54
>> To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
>> Subject: Blocking MAC Addresses
>>
>> Hello...
>>
>> We currently have a problem at one of out remote locations. It
>> appears that an employee is brining their HOME laptop into work because
>> she
>> is not able to load programs on her restricted NT workstation. Is is
>> possible for me to block her MAC address so that its given a bogus
>> non-routerable IP address when she sends out a broadcast for an address?
>> Please help.. thanks
>>
>> Jeff Bilder BS, MCSE
>> Network Manager
>> MediChem Research
>> jbildermcr.medichem.com
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