On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:33:47AM -0500, Schmehl, Paul L wrote: > > > ... I'd be surprised if any organisation exists (outside of the > > > military) that insists on knowing the MAC addresses of machines before > > > they get connected to the network. (In our case we monitor MAC addresses > > > instead as we can then spot network problems). > > Bzzzzt -- wrong. > > > > Some small, medium and large corporates do this. Some .edus even do it. I can verify that this is also the case at Southwest Missouri State University, a small uni of 30,000 or so students (15000 or so full-time last time I checked), from my time there as a student. One doesn't have to be .mil or have a ludicrous budget to follow this practice. It makes good sense to know exactly what is on your network.
In the case of SMSU, most network switches were per-port MAC-filtered to their
assigned address, managed through a central database with links to SNMP
management on the switches for controlling network access.
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