Has anyone actually had a student try to pull one over on you?  My impression of the students here is that if they are smart enough to even know what a mac address is, they're smart enough to realize that someone, somewhere must have built in some sort of check.  I'd be curious to hear what the punishment was if anyone caught someone trying to fool the filter.  From talking to the guys at the help desk here, I found they would be too scared to even try something like that.  The seperation (by a few buildings) of the systems administrators from the help desk staff causes the students to feel a strange mystical ambiance about the network where "someone is always watching the logs".....

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From: Perfigo SecureSmart and CleanMachines Discussion List on behalf of Simon Bell
Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 8:43 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Playstation PSP



Mine too started with 00:01:4a

>>> [log in to unmask] 2/2/2006 2:43 PM >>>
We have had 4 PSP's and they all started with 00:01:4A.

I guess it could be but looks a little fishy.



John Truelove
OIT Network Engineer - CCNP
Indiana State University
210 N 7th Street, Rankin Rm 54
Terre Haute, IN 47809
812-237-4921

>>> [log in to unmask] 2/2/2006 2:35 PM >>>
So I got my first Playstation PSP request today......

00:02:C7: is the first three of the MAC

Comes back to:

00-02-C7   (hex)                ALPS ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.
0002C7     (base 16)            ALPS ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.
                                1-2-1, Okinouchi, Sama-City,
                                Fukushima-pref, 976-8501,
                                JAPAN
                                JAPAN

What do you guys think?  PSP or someone's computer..   It's an
american
name that the kid has.

BTW, can the PSP connect via Wired?  Since it's not going to get on
our
wirless network. (We're 802.1x required)