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Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by tinco »

walrus01 wrote: post #17
ollien wrote: post #2

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline. Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

If your college has any proper security on access ports, they'll be limited to one MAC address per physical port, and hopefully a decent 802.1x setup

Why would 1 mac per port be proper security? Seems needlessly restrictive and ineffective to me.

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by jlgaddis »

walrus01 wrote: post #17
ollien wrote: post #2

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline. Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

If your college has any proper security on access ports, they'll be limited to one MAC address per physical port, and hopefully a decent 802.1x setup

> an airgapped network for security classes

Re: The Nintendo Switch Switch

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Post by braindeath »

walrus01 wrote: post #17
ollien wrote: post #2

At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline. Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)

If your college has any proper security on access ports, they'll be limited to one MAC address per physical port, and hopefully a decent 802.1x setup

One MAC per port is very low yield, won’t do anything to stop even a mildly sophisticated attacker, and often just makes life more difficult than it needs to be. Especially for a college network where any notion that the general network is “secure” is a complete joke.
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